>If you're independently wealthy [1] or your family will take care of you, viewing college expenses as an enrichment experience (akin to a trip to Europe) is ju

>If you're independently wealthy [1] or your family will take care of you, viewing college expenses as an enrichment experience (akin to a trip to Europe) is just fine. On of the goals of the vast public higher education infrastructure that boomed in the 1960s was to bring that enrichment experience to everyone. And it was successful at this - participation in liberal arts majors was quite high until relatively recently. Harpers [0] has an excellent piece on the topic. [0] http://harpers.org/archive/2015/09/the-neoliberal-arts/ http://harpers.org/archive/2015/09/the-neoliberal-arts/