Here’s Seth Godin’s Ted talk on the future of education and what we can do to improve it. One of his recommendations: Let the fascination with famous colleges die.
[It's time for] the death of the famous college. Notice I didn't say 'good' college. We don’t know what a good college is. But we know what a famous college is because someone ranked them as famous or because they have a football team that’s famous. Why on earth are we paying extra, why on earth are we working harder to comply and be obedient just so we can get a famous brand name that has no relevance to success or happiness put after our name?