I was a very odd kid. I didn't know people who were college educated, except the teachers in my public school. When i was an under graduate, i did some pretty dumb things. That's how i learned to protect who i was and what i cared about as much as simonds already believed in the mission of h b c s. The moment of the floyd murder was a very important moment for most hb c s. We thought we were out of that, and suddenly there's this wake up call that says, no, we're not there yet. What do you do? It reminds me of the moment in 19 63 when johnf. Kennedy was killed, and
We think of them as intellectual enclaves and the surest route to a better life. But U.S. colleges also operate like firms, trying to differentiate their products to win market share and prestige points. In the first episode of a special series, we ask what our chaotic system gets right — and wrong. (Part 1 of “Freakonomics Radio Goes Back to School.”)