MM> from "In Lieu of Education", in _Toward a History of Needs_ (Ivan 
MM> Illich).
MM> "Further investments in school everywhere render the futility of
MM> schooling monumental.  Paradoxically, the poor are the first victims
MM> of more school.  The Wright Commission in Ontario had to report to 
MM> its
MM> government sponsors that postsecondary education is inevitably and 
MM> without
MM> remedy the disproportionate taxing of the poor for an education that 
MM> will
MM> always be enjoyed mainly by the rich."
    I'll agree with Illich on this point, but Illich is far from the only 
scholar to say it.  Milton Friedman had made the same analysis of who gets 
the net benefits and who gets the net losses from state universities decades 
ago.
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