It is an old saw that a liberal education is a value in and of itself, but when students are asked to matriculate with a lifetime of debt, can anyone honestly advise young people to follow their educational bliss these days?
Student loan debt has become a crushing burden for generations of American young and formerly young people. College costs in real dollars (that is, adjusted for inflation) have quadrupled since 1971. Nationally, total student loan debt at $1.75…