Reader Bram left a comment to my last post, The “Education” System from a Primary Source with a link to a short piece by Fred Reed of “Fred on Everything” fame. The title of this post comes from that piece, College Then and Now: Letter to a Bright Young Woman. I urge you to read it in its entirety.
The only thing I would add to it is the observation that the public school system producing the incoming Freshmen has also declined dramatically since “The Sixties,” so that ten to twenty percent of college-prepared students is now probably less than 5% compared to a few decades ago.