I'm hoping the pendulum swings back in that direction. The great lie, one that I believed for a time, is that everyone in our society needs to have a "higher education". I always thought it was important because people ought to know history, literature, philosophy, etc. And I still think they do, it's true, but now I wouldn't want them to learn that from your average university because they're not teaching an honest version of those subjects. Critical Race Theory has distorted all of them to make them "racist", "sexist", or some other condemnable quality.
So in that sense nowadays I think the line from Good Will Hunting rings true: “You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”
The university system was only ever meant to prepare a select few because their gifts and callings required that kind of intellectual formation (i.e. they were a gifted and charismatic orator with a knack for policy and who had a noble desire for public service, then going to Harvard made sense because it completed their cultivation as a future leader of this country). They were the best of the best.
Now our universities have turned into propaganda factories that society wants to pass every single young adult through for indoctrination. Which is why they have an ever-expanding list of degrees like Underwater Basket Weaving and Women's Studies (gag).
I hope we return to a more balanced society wherein a small minority of the population attends four-year institutions and the rest ply trades or, if for women, stay home to raise their families. I firmly believe if we returned to the pre-sexual revolution social structures that our society would stabilize in a profound way.
