Attacking college students for their idealism makes no sense whatsoever. My granddad didn’t have the opportunity to go to college, my dad went to Alabama, I’m going to IU, and if I have a kid and they want to go to school (and I hope they will), I’d love for them to go to University of Chicago. I don’t think getting a fine education necessarily makes one elitist or Marxist or whatever. Education just means knowing what possibilities are out there, where your place is in the world and how to navigate and hopefully help other people in the process. It doesn’t mean you have to give up who you are and parrot people. In fact, it should mean the exact opposite. Furthermore, if college students are such an idiots, why are Bloomington, Hyde Park etc. such nice places to live?
