We can only hope. But that would only represent half of what’s needed to restore some semblance of respectability to the education industry.

Roger Kimball ponders the outrageous cost of higher education these days, which seems to have an inverse relationship with the quality of education received. Four years at a top school will cost upwards of $250,000 by the time the student graduates. For the cost of a house you can buy an indoctrination education that puts you in an apartment.

While tuition costs have more than doubled compared to the housing bubble, many students graduate with mostly useless degrees - their heads filled with the fashionable nonsense of the elites. Unfortunately, many students will not realize they are being ripped-off as Kimball observes, “…anyone who majors in “Women’s Studies” - the pseudo-discipline to end all pseudo-disciplines - may be presumed to be securely insulated from reality.”

Furthermore:

Many parents are alarmed, rightly so, at the spectacle of their children going off to college one year and coming back the next having jettisoned every moral, religious, social, and political scruple that they had been brought up to believe. Why should parents fund the moral de-civilization of their children at the hands of tenured antinomians? Why should alumni generously support an alma mater whose political and educational principles nourish a world view that is not simply different from but diametrically opposed to the one they endorse? Why should trustees preside over an institution whose faculty systematically repudiates the pedagogical mission they, as trustees, have committed themselves to uphold?

Just imagine the sorts of sub-literate, ideologically charged nonsense that Women’s Studies debtor was battened on in her classes!

However, Kimball concludes on an optimistic note, that educational malpractice combined with economic turmoil may bring about the change that is desperately needed in our failing schools - one bubble worth bursting.