My biggest gripe with the (higher) education system in the US is how it exacerbates inequalities. I have experience training recent elite university graduates in corporate settings and as an instructor at the grad school level in a public college. The majority of my grad school students are very smart, hard-working people who have been short-changed by a public school system that has left them without basic reading, writing, mathematical and reasoning skills that my elite school trainees achieved in their freshman years (if not their highly-resourced private high schools). This inequality is not sustainable. It stresses institutions, retards economic growth, and increases mistrust and tribalism, as recent events make all too clear.
Great article. Keep ’em coming!
