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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Why do they despise college as an institution?[/quote]

The information is readily and cheaply available now, due to the digital revolution.  You do not have to pay $$$ to stick your child in some stone building and gave him/her a ID card which has access to the Great Libraries...that information can be bought and downloaded/read on your laptop, everywhere.

There is a lot of grumbling that the education itself is stale.  What schools are teaching are not helpful in the digital age.

As for mixing with the Right People, colleges have proliferated and being a "college graduate" just does not have the cache it once did.  By Right People, I by no means mean race or anything of the sort.  It's children that my children can meet and together create wonderful things for this world.  A school full of lemmings is not that.

Life is short.  Spending four precious years of it drinking and pissing around and being able to vaguely recite a line or two of Hamlet after $500,000 is not what we want for our kids and not how we want to spend our money.

The digital age is a light-speed revolution, and schools are moving too slow.

We just see it as a waste.  Basically, if our kids don't get into an Ivy, don't bother.  And feel free to drop out of Ivy for the right reasons, Mom/Dad won't be mad.  Of course, if they are interested/talented in the arts, that's a whole another story...

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