This line does not reflect well on the author: > I used to amuse myself by asking recent university grads what they had learned, most of them could barely reme

This line does not reflect well on the author: > I used to amuse myself by asking recent university grads what they had learned, most of them could barely remember anything. Since I was widely read, often I knew enough to ask basic questions about their discipline, and they wouldn’t know the answers. One has to wonder if the author's perspective on school might have been tinted by this kind of arrogance.