GEORGE LEEF: For Many Students, Education Is an Afterthought. “For many young Americans, schooling and credentials matter, but actual education is an afterthought. They have many other things they’d rather do than work to master course material, but since they’ve enrolled and paid, they believe that they’re entitled to good grades and degrees.”

Nothing new about that. As one of my college professors once remarked, education is the only consumer product where most consumers want to get as little as possible for their money.