> We've ended up in a weird situation where inexpensive teaching-first institutions (Universities are really better set up for generating research) have, essent

> We've ended up in a weird situation where inexpensive teaching-first institutions (Universities are really better set up for generating research) have, essentially, no prestige for some reason. A lot of situations where prestige matters don't place any value on the knowledge learned in college anyway. As luxury consumption, universities are far superior to community colleges. It's so incredibly cool to learn math from celebrities who literally wrote the book on the topic.