{"id":10759,"date":"2011-04-17T16:28:10","date_gmt":"2011-04-17T16:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/17\/is-college-for-everyone\/"},"modified":"2011-04-17T16:28:10","modified_gmt":"2011-04-17T16:28:10","slug":"is-college-for-everyone","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/17\/is-college-for-everyone\/","title":{"rendered":"Is College for Everyone?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">When I was in the 7th grade my teacher told me I was &#39;college material,&#39; the implication being that not everyone is.&#0160; She was right on both counts.&#0160; I was and not everyone is.&#0160; But times have changed, and <em>pace<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/29445201\/\" target=\"_self\">Obama<\/a>, change is not always for the better.&#0160; Part of the change for the worse is that the very phrase &#39;college material&#39; has fallen into desuetude.&#0160; <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">The conceit that everyone can profit from a college education is of course foolish &#8211;&#0160;which is perhaps why it is is so warmly embraced by liberals, those whose egalitarian instincts are&#0160;rarely constrained by common sense.&#0160; It was foolish when college was affordable and it is multiply foolish now when it isn&#39;t.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><span style=\"font-family: georgia,palatino;\">I now hand off to &#39;Professor X&#39; whose Atlantic piece, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/magazine\/archive\/2008\/06\/in-the-basement-of-the-ivory-tower\/6810\/\" target=\"_self\">In the Basement of the Ivory Tower<\/a>, is one of the best things I have read on this topic.<\/span>&#0160;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When I was in the 7th grade my teacher told me I was &#39;college material,&#39; the implication being that not everyone is.&#0160; She was right on both counts.&#0160; I was and not everyone is.&#0160; But times have changed, and pace Obama, change is not always for the better.&#0160; Part of the change for the worse &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2011\/04\/17\/is-college-for-everyone\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Is College for Everyone?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[52],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10759","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-academia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10759"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10759\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10759"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10759"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10759"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}