By Theoy Possessed

y father offered few words on the state of the world, but the few he volunteered were usually shrewd. I remember, in particular, what
he used to say about college tuitions-"The more you pay, the less you seem to go."
Alas, my father didn't know the half of it. It was not merely that steeper tuitions bought less time. They also bought less content. A grossly oversimplified history may help ex- plain.
Beginning in the mid-1960s or thereabouts, a revolution o...