For 400 years, higher education in the US has been on a roll. From Harvard asking Galileo to be a guest professor in the 1600s to millions tuning in to watch a team of unpaid athletes play another team of unpaid athletes in some college sporting event, the amount of time and money and prestige in the college world has been climbing.
I'm afraid that's about to crash and burn. Here's how I'm looking at it.
This one is worth a read. Seth Godin on a foreboding higher ed crisis. I'd agree with much of what he has to say. The necessity of the "paper" when weighed against the debt necessary to get it (among other things) is not quite as high as people might think or want it to be. I'm still glad I got my degree but don't know if it will ever matter much in my life.