An English instructor at an adult education college addresses the issue of whether “the idea that a university education is for everyone is a destructive myth.”

America, ever-idealistic, seems wary of the vocational-education track. We are not comfortable limiting anyone’s options. Telling someone that college is not for him seems harsh and classist and British, as though we were sentencing him to a life in the coal mines. I sympathize with this stance; I subscribe to the American ideal. Unfortunately, it is with me and my red pen that that ideal crashes and burns.

I have a copy of Deschooling Society on my shelf that I’ve been meaning to read for years now.