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Tuesday, July 3. 2012

An Interview with Glenn Reynolds on The Higher Education Bubble

Good fun, at Driscoll: An Interview with Glenn Reynolds on The Higher Education Bubble.


One fascinating factoid from Glenn: "People who are accepted at Ivy colleges, and don't go, are as successful in life as those who do attend."


What is success?


Glenn contends that the Ivies now exist as places for the elite to meet elite spouses.

Posted by The Barrister in Education at 12:20 | Comment (1) | Trackbacks (0)

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How has this changed? Prior to WWII, no Ivy was intellectually elite. They served the ruling class, socializing its young savages and organizing mating trips to the Seven Sisters. This was still going on until the 1970s when they went co-ed. Occasionally, and inadvertently, someone got educated. But that was hardly the point.

By the way, until surprisingly recently (20 to 30 years?) Yale led all colleges and universities with the number of football All-Americans. Also, legend has it that a Harvard coach strangled a bulldog puppy (an Eli) during one half-time to fire up the lads.

Elite, but not meritocratic other than by breeding, WASP and all that.

Notice of conflict of interest: I am a French-Canadian Catholic by descent with some high-church, low-life WASP. Also went to a notorious commuter school.
#1 bob sykes on 2012-07-03 15:10 (Reply)

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