Colleges, chaos and cash: No wonder confidence in higher education today is so low
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Former secretary of education details why obtaining a college education is no longer an automatic decision for America's students — and why the real guardrails in life are values, virtues and faith.
Parents of prospective college students cannot follow what the colleges are doing these days — even as they're asked to shell out big bucks for their kids' education. We went from a majority of Americans believing in the value of higher education to now just a distinct minority who feel that way. Attending a four-year liberal arts college is no longer an automatic decision for many students. It's the values and virtues our country was founded on — self-discipline, compassion, responsibility, courage, perseverance — that provide the ultimate guardrail. William J. Bennett is the former secretary of education and director of the National Office of Drug Control Policy.
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