<p>The point of getting readership is writing something controversial, against the mainstream thinking. Everyone’s pushing their kids to go to college, so you write about the uselessness of higher education. By the time all the news outlets join the outcry against college attendance, I guess we’ll be hearing something like how college is so essential that it’s a crime we don’t make it mandatory?</p>
<p>The trend already seems to be reversing. In today’s paper:
[Even</a> for Cashiers, College Pays Off](<a href=“College Degrees Are Valuable Even for Careers That Don’t Require Them - The New York Times”>College Degrees Are Valuable Even for Careers That Don’t Require Them - The New York Times)</p>