John Tierney: “John Kenneth Galbraith, who lives in our State and is well-known by everyone, wrote a book recently called 'The Good…”

“John Kenneth Galbraith, who lives in our State and is well-known by everyone, wrote a book recently called 'The Good Society.' Is not a difficult book to read. It is not long. He has an excellent small chapter on education. He talks with an historical perspective about colleges being very private in nature at first because, obviously, wealthy families wanted the best for their children and society thought that education was the important instrument to obtain that. So they moved in that direction and they provided college education for their children. And at some point society woke up and decided this was a good thing for society, to have a large number of people, in fact the more people as possible, who could be trained and educated to increase our productivity and to make it a better place to live, to be better participants in the Government, and simply to raise the quality and standard of life for each individual. So we created a public higher education system...”