It just occurred to me that the anti-college backlash follows inevitably from the decline of the classical liberal arts education. Since "education" is now, in

It just occurred to me that the anti-college backlash follows inevitably from the decline of the classical liberal arts education. Since "education" is now, in our society's view, nothing more than job training, why bother with it at all? Just skip it and go straight to the job, or start your own business. No "education" required. Education as civilizing self-development is something other than schooling and training, but our institutions have abandoned that, if they ever provided it in the first place. I think they did use to, but only for a tiny elite.