"College’s harsh lesson"

As a university instructor I--no surprise--believe that college offers students plenty of value. But I agree with this piece that the disproportionate interest in the most elite schools often  has more to do with mom and dad's bragging rights than value to the students.

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[Clayton]

The average private school now costs more than $40,000 a year, while the Bureau of Labor Statistics is projecting that most of the jobs created in the next decade won’t require “much more than on-the-job training.” Princeton economist Alan Blinder tells the Los Angeles Times he “won’t be surprised years from now if a carpenter in the U.S. earns more than a college-educated computer operator.”

I keep seeing these bad indicators - education is simply not valued. Or, we haven't enough demand for the supply (outside of IT). When will we create something big and interesting again (teleporter anyone)?