ELLIOT RESNICK: We Could Use Fewer College Graduates
1 sourceUpdated Jul 1, 2026
A hundred years ago, roughly 10 percent of recent American high-school graduates attended college. Today that figure is 61 percent . Are we better off? Hardly. “The aim of education is wisdom,” writes Robert M…
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