Aug 14
It’s a perennial question that gets people on both sides of the debate pretty riled up — should everyone go to college? With the cost of higher education continuing to climb since the postwar era — a time when many people were able to pay for college with part-time jobs and generous government assistance like the G.I. Bill — is getting a university education even worth it these days? In 1987 an educator by the name of Herbert London argued that for most people it wasn’t. But London explained that there were also many factors other than price that would lead to nothing less than the inevitable extinction of the university system. One of the most important, London argues, was the public’s disillusionment with liberal politics on campus.
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