From PUP, the first chapter from Wisdom’s Workshop: The Rise of the Modern University by James Axtell. Robert Paul Wolff on eight major transformations of American higher education in his lifetime. What is the point of college? Kwame Anthony Appiah investigates. The education myth: The elite consensus on education hurts college students and recent graduates. Billionaires show that going to a top college isn’t very important. If you think Harvard and Columbia are too radical for you, please remember that there are in this great nation plenty of Bible colleges at which your son or daughter will never hear a “radical” idea, and the prices are reasonable. The golden age of college in the U.S. may be drawing to a close. Save our public universities: Marilynne Robinson writes in defense of America’s best idea. Frank Pasquale reviews The End of College: Creating the Future of Learning and the University of Everywhere by Kevin Carey.
