College students living in the lap of luxury

Yet further proof that colleges are reverting back to playpens for the children of the wealthy. This can be rectified: 1. Found free and open schools, research labs, and workshops, i.e. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hackerspace. 2. Encourage great thinkers and innovators to boycott the universities and join these new institutions instead. 3. Support these new institutions and their members through donations, sponsorship, and employment. 4. Persuade companies and start-ups to validate the work and members of these new spaces by recognizing the achievements of their members as more valuable than paper degrees from grade-inflating universities.

Some inspiration: http://bit.ly/jxI9Gl

It's not just the wealthy, it's about creating a lifelong addiction to living beyond one's means using debt.

I am on track to be a public school math / CS teacher and articles like this make me reconsider my choice to go the "legit teacher" route (as opposed to mentoring in my own way, free from the restrictions of public school systems and their Brazil-esque bureaucratic absurdity).

If I could figure out how best to do it, I'd much rather offer interactive workshops in the maths and CS set up like dojos: come in, try something, spar / debate, prove yourself, and learn by doing. Hackerspace but with a pedagogical bent and a slightly different subject focus.

It's sad and doesn't bode well for the future to see an new generation isolated from social variance by off-campus, luxury life. However, I don't see how this belongs on HN.