> It’s intellectually trendy nowadays to downplay the importance and or significance of college. Luckily scientists and engineers from the early 1800s to the 1

> It’s intellectually trendy nowadays to downplay the importance and or significance of college. Luckily scientists and engineers from the early 1800s to the 1950s didn't see it that way. If it's 'a trend', then there's little that's intellectual about it. A blade may be able to take a fine, durable edge, but without annealing and honing it might as well be an expensive banana.