Trades surge, colleges sink as the ‘toolbelt generation’ turns to hands-on work

The higher-education industry is having a bad decade.

Some problems are obvious: With wokeness and campus unrest, colleges and universities have lost some of their mystique.

They’ll tell you to “follow the science,” right before they tell you that men can get pregnant.

Violent antisemitic riots haven’t done much to burnish their image, nor have the limp responses to those riots from many university administrations.  

Whom the gods would destroy, they first make ridiculous. Mission accomplished!

Then there’s the economics of it: The reward of college was supposed to be a good job at the end.