Apparently if you go to one of those big-ticket colleges, those with the $56,000 annual tuition and estimated $70,000 in living expenses, your ROI (return on investment) will be negative. That is to say, that in spite of the popular perception that "four years of college will get you so much better an income that it's a worthwhile investment", the truth is that if you spend your head off on these colleges you'll actually lose money.
Said one commentator on the panel: "That's because the internet allows people to learn what they need to know in order to do what they want to do."
Well, it has been the case for thirty years that going to Harvard, Princeton, or Yale isn't a guarantee that you'll become educated. Quite the contrary, these schools are so obsessed with "innovative" curriculum they'll actually interfere with your education and make you stupid. Why would any college offer a course in "Video games as gender territory"? This is not scholarship in any way other than that you can say it feeds more dissertations, which in turn unleashes more uncritical, unthinking people onto the scholastic world where they shout from their bully pulpit that only morons would not see how important their field of study was.
Emperor's new clothes much?
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