You will get denounced as the wrong kind of elitist (by self-appointed elitists of the left being massively overproduced these days) if you dare to suggest that too many people are going to college because in fact a lot of high school graduates being pushed onto the college track are not suited for it. This becomes even more salient when pondering the liberal arts rightly understood, especially as the expectation or demand that everyone attend college today had led to the excessive growth of universities that leads in turn to the homogenization and dumbing down of higher education.
Hence, Leo Strauss from “Liberal Education and Responsibility”: