I agree generally - the people who say college has no value are generally the ones with degrees and with the privilege to send their kids (any time someone says

I agree generally - the people who say college has no value are generally the ones with degrees and with the privilege to send their kids (any time someone says that, ask if their kids are going to college). But per the article, Grant claims to have research and data. I wouldn't be so quick to disimiss it. One weakness (perhaps addressed in the article) is that life is so much more than career. While important, it's not even the most important thing among many. Education - knowledge; reasoning, critical thinking, problem solving, and learning skills - is valuable for almost everything in life. This sort of reductionism - of education to money-making - assumes the extreme anti-intellectual arguments are true. Ironically, that kind of rhetorical attack - building your claim into the assumptions - is a sophisticated method used by those trained in the humanities, and recognized (hopefully) by those who study the humanities.