Instapundit’s Glenn Reynolds on the Future of Higher Education and How Kids are Getting Wise to Student Loan Debt

The next few weeks will be filled with university commencement
ceremonies that are being held all over the country. But what does
a college degree really mean today? Reason TV interviewed
Instapundit‘s Glenn Reynolds last month on
perception of higher education and potential reforms. The original
writeup is below:

“It’s kind of a weird thing that’s happened with American
society—this idea that you have to have a college degree to be a
respectable member of the middle class,” says Glenn Reynolds,
professor of law at the University of Tennessee and purveyor of the
popular Instapundit blog.
Reynolds’ latest work,
The New School: How the Information Age Will Save American
Education From Itself, looks at the higher education
bubble and how parents, students, and educators can remake the
education system. 

Reynolds sat down with Reason TV’s Alexis Garcia to discuss why
Americans are spending more for a college education and how
students are responding to increasing tuition costs. “Given how
expensive it is to go to college, there has to be a return
sufficient to make it worth the time and especially the money,”
Reynolds states. “You’re seeing declining enrollment in some
schools and you’re seeing much more price resistance on the part of
both parents and students.”

The discussion also includes Reynolds’ take on school choice,
the upcoming elections, the current state of the blogosphere, and
whether or not both political parties are necessary. Nearly a
decade after Reynolds published
An Army of Davids: How Markets and Technology Empower Ordinary
People to Beat Big Media, Big Government, and Other
Goliaths, the blogfather still remains optimistic about
technology’s ability to empower the individual and inspire
grassroots movements. 

Approximately 19 minutes long.

Click
here to read Glenn’s favorite work, Memorandum from the
Devil by Arthur A. Leff. 

Produced by Alexis Garcia. Camera by Paul Detrick, Zach
Weissmueller, and Tracy Oppenheimer. After Effects graphics by
William Neff. 

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