Freepers liked college before it sold out.

Rick Santorum, with his usual message discipline, basically said that Obama wanted to allow anyone to go to college to that they could become liberally indoctrinated snobs.

Freepers are always up for a conspiracy, and hate public schooling, so I thought that they would agree. And they did. But I hadn't calculated how much they apparently enjoyed college.
So most of them talked more of how College was awesome when they did it, but now it sucks:

AmericanInTokyo knows all about college these days:

It was good. In the old days.
Nowadays, mostly a scam. And a high cost one at that.

stars & stripes forever comes out for the college conspiracy:

College is sort of an alternate universe

It's the final step in indoctrinating the future Socialists of America.

OldArmy52 regrets his major, so college sucks:

College is over-rated mainly in that the first two years of a 4 year degree is “general education” and only the last two years are for the “major”. And that it is very hard to guess what major will be in job demand upon graduation.

My first B.S. major was a waste as the field that was crying out for that subject area when I started, was glutted by the time I graduated. My sister’s English B.A. of course was a waste as it did not generate job offers, other than the Peace Corps.

I should have become a plumber or a politician as they get the big bucks for dealing in sleaze.

matginzac lays out the news system:

Big College could be looked at as another “Ponzi” scheme...
somewhere along the line, the rules changed from:
go to college, get a useful degree, make the world and your personal situation better, pass on to your kids if you can.
Now it’s: go to college, get indoctrinated or party or endure the radical line, graduate and find a job in ANYTHING in or out of your major and end up funding an institution where radicals like Ayers and Dornen can become gormands and wine experts...
like everything else these days, the value and purpose has been skewed and diminished...thanks to libs and anarchists.

massgopguy has what may be the least believable anecdote ever on Free Republic:

Ex-Wife’s brother was engaged to the daughter of an Ivy League family. While traveling in their Jaguar in Boston the car broke down. He was able to solve the problem in minutes. The family had her break off the engagement because a mechanics knowledge was beneath them. He’s actually an Architect but I guess “real” gentlemen wait for the Tow Truck.

I'll bet stocksthatgoup totally has at least a masters.

High school is over-rated
Grade School is over-rated
Pre-School is over-rated
The whole damn education system is over-rated

bearkat crows how he picked the right school.

It all depends on WHERE you go to college. I went to a state school here in Texas that I didn’t go deep into debt for. On my first day my history professor told us to return our history books because he wasn’t going to use it. He taught us REAL history. My geology professor had styrofoam rocks he’d throw at the sleeping morons in the back of the class. I had a wonderful,unforgettable experience that I would do all over again. No regrets.

Dilbert San Diego knows liberal arts is useless:

There’s a lot of anecdotal evidence that people with college degrees in women’s studies, liberal arts, history, English, etc. end up working at Barnes and Noble or Target.

Nothing wrong with such jobs, but, they don’t require college degrees.

The media completely distorts what was said and what the subject here is, as usual. But we should have a national debate about college, and who should go to college, and what financial aid should be available. Too many degrees don’t translate into jobs or a career path.

Kind of a good point, till you realize that folks with a college degree have like 4% unemployment even these days.

St_Thomas_Aquinas has a list for us!

College has descended from “over-rated” to a complete joke.

Why?

1) Little of value is taught.

2) Colleges dropped classical logic, yet claim to teach “critical thinking skills.”

3) Teaching is more like indoctrination.

4) Because they receive a graduation certificate, students think themselves wise, when they are fools.

5) Students learn lifetime vices, like cheating, fornication, drug use, laziness, etc.

6) Students lose 4 years of earnings.

7) And people pay for this abuse.

As a genX author recently said, college is a bar with a 20-grand cover charge.

Clearly, this guy knows all about college.

And there you have it, what Freepers know about college made it cool, so they distance themselves from reality and presto! they can say whatever they want.