[stevenameyer]

I think the major problem with higher education is two things.

1) Inflation. So many people are now getting degrees that they are starting to mean less and less. But since so many people have a degree its starting to become a necessity for jobs that use to not require them.

2) People see Higher education as something it was not designed for. Training for a job. Historically (unless your going into a professional program such as engineering or medicine) education was designed to help in the quest for knowledge, not as a means to get a good paying job. And we are starting to see this more and more. A BA may give you tons of knowledge in literature, or history, or whatever your major is but more often then not this knowledge is not preparing you for a job, it is acquiring knowledge for the sake of knowing.