The Value of Higher Education

Sally Kohn: I think that you had some really interesting points on the value of going to college. And you talk about brand capital, and I wanted to bring back a clip from an old episode with Scott Galway where he talks about this whole idea of brands and colleges. She says we as academics have become drunk with the notion of exclusivity.Kohn: We no longer see ourselves as public servants. We are see ourselves as luxury brands. It's basically, like, if you can get into the school, that signals something about your pedigree orYour children will be somewhere in your weight class.