it may be reassuring to the faithful, but I've heard it too often before. The theme is familiar, simple, but bogus: our ideas have no respectability because the intellectuals are corrupt and the universities have indoctrinated our youth. Isn't that what got Socrates in trouble?

I wouldn't complain about it if I were you, TB. Business Administration enrollment has probably never been higher, and those departments offering specialized commercial training (and their own brand of indoctrination) are thriving.

College was the most valuable experience of my life, from both a practical and intellectual point of view. I got my money's worth. And so did society.