National Review

There are a set of implications that, while rarely acknowledged openly, are present nevertheless: that those who do not go to college have in some way failed…that every time a person declines to attend college, he is making America a little stupider on aggregate; and, by extension, that people who lack college degrees but nevertheless are successful are not demonstrating an alternative way of living their lives so much as muddling through as best they can absent vital instruction from their superiors.