The best schools wouldn’t make a difference. The truth is most people are not intellectually capable of higher education.
The college loan debacle wasn’t caused by predatory lending; it was caused by predatory education. Forcing everyone into college is the equivalent of requiring Olympic training for everyone.
It may sound good, but you’ll still end up with 2% at the top and 20% making a living, while the rest are left with broken dreams.
When I said education I did not intend to limit my comment to academic pursuits. Our country should look at the German model where decisions is to paths students will follows at a relatively early stage. Then there are personal preferences in which testing cannot easily detect. I went to engineering school from which a handful of my classmates after graduating entered fields very remote from engineering.