Contra Mendacium et Odium
We have been fed many erroneous ideas throughout the course of our nation's history, but perhaps one of the most destructive of these was the idea that "higher education," also known as "college" or "university," is a necessary ritual in "self-improvement." Language such as "I'm going to make something of myself" has been attached to the college mind-set for a very long time, but it basically implies that we were valueless before, and can only attain value, in our…