I agree with you, and came in here to post that exact quote. It's a really frightening misunderstanding of education and the problems it actually faces, as wel

I agree with you, and came in here to post that exact quote. It's a really frightening misunderstanding of education and the problems it actually faces, as well as "scaling." But how is your alma mater supposed to maintain it's size if it does that? And if it doesn't maintain it size, that means it's cutting jobs, at least temporarily. And if it's perceived as shrinking, just that very fact will be damning to it's application process, and so starts the slow rotation around the drain. While I agree most things should be based on providing value, to the extent that most American entities are focused mostly on size, it's kind of too late (or at the very least a lot more complicated than you are making it). To me this is the anecdote of the larger problem in our economy: we've completely overextended ourselves, and created a lot of unnecessary jobs. But now that we've done so, cutting back is also bad. So what do we do? I mean besides grin and bear it. (This is a serious question - as an HN voice of wisdom, how about some advice.)