College—a Good Value, or Buyer’s Remorse for Parents

College—a Good Value, or Buyer’s Remorse for Parents
Students at Piece College walk to their classes on Nov. 16, 2021. John Fredricks/The Epoch Times
John M. Ellis
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There have always been plenty of good reasons to send your children to college, but do those reasons still hold up today? Many colleges and universities are now heavily corrupted by radical politics, and it’s surely time to revisit those reasons. Is college still the best use of four years of your children’s lives, and a cash outlay in excess of a hundred thousand dollars?

John M. Ellis
John M. Ellis
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John M. Ellis is a distinguished professor emeritus at University of California–Santa Cruz, chair of the California Association of Scholars, and the author of several books, the most recent of which is “The Breakdown of Higher Education: How It Happened, the Damage It Does, and What Can Be Done.”
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