What Every High School Junior Should Know About Going to College
5th September 2014
Bryan Caplan pulls back the curtain.
Going to college definitely sounds better. Almost every authority figure in your life – educators and family alike – recommend it to each and every student. But as you may have noticed, authority figures are often untrustworthy. Indeed, they usually bend the truth whenever honesty makes them look bad. This doesn’t mean you shouldn’t go to college, but it is a reason to second-guess the party line, to seek out ugly facts parents and educators would rather ignore.