NP: RAI

Andrew Sullivan flags an article in the Atlantic Monthly that raises an issue that's been on my mind for a long time. College isn't necessarily for everyone. I'm doing that superficial bloggy thing and just commenting on the existence of the article and the blurb from it that Sullivan quotes, but I'll try to read the whole thing later when I'm not at a bar watching Italian soccer.

Anyway, I had a good friend of mine growing up who would have been a lousy fit in college had he gone -- he repairs boats on the Jersey shore, and another friend who took a few years before enrolling -- and taught himself Linux at various jobs before formally entering the world of higher education. Both of those were good decisions on their parts and for their particular characters. The fact that the anonymous professor mentions the American "aversion" to vocational training makes me think he (or she) is on the money.