“College is not for everybody — but more importantly – everybody is not for college,” says Dan Flynn, author of ”Blue Collar Intellectuals: When the Enlightened and the Everyman Elevated America,” when asked about former Sen. Rick Santorum’s controversial comments about higher education.
In fairness to Obama, advocating “higher education” does not necessarily equal advocating that everyone should obtain a four-year degree. But by the same token, it is clear that there has been a push among some liberal elites to encourage near-universal college attendance.
Santorum’s comments might have been misdirected at Mr. Obama, but his general concerns were no less valid.
“When you open up the gates of universities without regard to aptitude,” warns Flynn, “the result is to drag the school’s down to the lowest common denominator, rather than uplift the dim.”
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