Short answer: Yes.
Short answer: Yes.
In my opinion, the quality of undergraduate education at A/B/M is if anything better than what you’re likely to get at most Ivies. Not only are you more likely to get consistently small classes at a LAC, but virtually all of those classes will be taught by professors (never by graduate teaching assistants). The downside is that LACs will have more limited selections of courses (and possibly of majors). Again IMO, the small classes and lack of TAs trump the narrower course selection (for most liberal arts majors, anyway).
By the way, as for the speaker referenced in post #5, his own daughter graduated from Middlebury.