> Really no better than the average person who reads a lot of books. That might be true, but of course the "average person who reads a lot of books" is not eve

> Really no better than the average person who reads a lot of books. That might be true, but of course the "average person who reads a lot of books" is not even remotely average. Most people don't read a lot of books, so if college were to make an average person nearly as knowledgeable as self-motivated individuals interesting in spending their personal free-time reading books, as opposed to watching American Idol, it is pretty successful.