More and more young people are trying to get into universities. The trend is hailed with approval as though, in an ideal world, every boy and girl in the cou...

More and more young people are trying to get into universities. The trend is hailed with approval as though, in an ideal world, every boy and girl in the country ought to have a university education. The Government appears to share this delusion, since it is feverishly trying to divert funds from more worthwhile objects, or the still more desirable aim of reducing taxation, in order to provide extra 'places'.

Paul Johnson in To Hell with Picasso & Other Essays (1996)
Submitted by Dan Costinaş
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