population who is merely skating by. As more and more people attend university, the number of students who graduate with no real 'higher-learning,' despite what their degrees say, may well be increasing but the overall percentage of students for whom this is true is likely the same. Secondly, I wonder who it was who said only fifteen percent of people, fifty years ago, were intellectual enough to go to university. I can only assume it was one of the fifteen percent, a fifteen percent, as you point out, with financial resources. University attendance then as well as now had more to do with the ability to pay for it than with being smart enough to handle it. We all know plenty of "rich kids" with even elite educations who are by no measure but their birth members of the intelligentsia. Lastly - this is three points, not the promised two, which frankly I think casts into doubt my own right to be in university - while I think the lure of job prospects has people elbowing their way towards university doors, I take what may be an opposite view than your own. If it is the goal of getting a job that has people come into university, but once in university those same students are exposed, as they are, to all the wonderful new ideas, theories, knowledge, facts, and thinking that make university what it is - isn't that wonderful? Isn't it fabulous that we get to go to school