Colleges should stop imitating Harvard

See why colleges should do their own thing and not try to imitate Harvard. Harvard is expensive and with today's economy things are getting more and more expensive. With education costing more these days the more colleges should try to keep their cost at a minimum and not put the average student out in the cold, educationally speaking.

Is college an invaluable waste of time? You bet. But it's about to get even more valuable.

It's great to see capable people debating the value of higher education. Earlier this month, Dale Stephens, a 19-year-old entrepreneur who has won a $100,000 Thiel Fellowship, wrote that "College is a waste of time." One can argue that Dale is too young -- and too extraordinarily intelligent -- to be a good judge of the value of college to the average person. But if students like Dale, the kind that the best schools want to attract, are dissatisfied, that can't be good. Anyhow, Dale's description of college as a place of conformity, competition and regurgitation strikes an uneasy chord with some of us older, more-ordinary folk.

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