THE SECRET IS OUT: "Most of the students at our "best" universities aren't really that bright. The small liberal arts colleges and the Ivy leagues are good enough, but it's schools like UCLA, Berkeley, Michigan, and Boston University that, while they certainly have their share of talented people, carry what I like to call the diploma-chasers. These students aren't intellectually interesting, they aren't even interested in being intellectually interesting. They certainly aren't in school to study - they're in school because their parents told them to go or because they don't want to work yet or because they recognize that the only way to get a decent job (according to their values) is to get a college degree. They show up and do the minimum amount of work necessary to get through and get their diploma, usually in something like Psychology, English, Sociology, Poli Sci, or Communications. (Perfectly respectable majors, but they do seem to be magnets for collegiate detritus) Maybe this happens because we are turning education into a commodity, or maybe it has always been thus." So argues Highered Intelligence in a rebuttal (neither misting nor fisking) of an unfocused piece by Leslie Lenkowsky.