For example ,in UK,Prime Minister Blairwas close to achieveing his aim of getting 50per cent of all under thirties into college by 2010(even though a cynic would say that this was to keep them off the unemployment statistics ).
Today ,college is seen as a kind of small town form which people are keen to escape .some people drop out,but the most apathetic stay the course because it'stoo mucheffortto leave.
College has become a means to an end, an opportunity to increase one's chances on the employment market,and not an end in itself ,which gives you the chance to imagine, just for a short while,that you can change the world.