Why Should Kids Have All the Fun? I Want to Go to College, Too!

I don’t fully agree with George Bernard Shaw’s adage that “youth is wasted on the young,” but after taking my son, a rising high school senior, on a whirlwind tour of lovely, Northeastern liberal arts institutions of higher learning, I definitely believe that college is.

“What do you think of this place?” a dad from our Skidmore tour asked me as we kicked back on the front porch of the admissions office while our kids were inside trying to impress in their interviews.

I looked out at the re...