Reliving College

At the first Yale Parents Weekend, I managed to sucker Kyla into going with me to hear a an uninspired physics lecture and a fascinating lecture on how to foster "liberal" pro-western governments by General William E. Odom. Turns out Odom was one of those experts that were studiously ignored by the starry eyed neocon crowd, but that's another story. I knew what Steven Schragis was talking about when I read this article in the NYTimes.

Steven Schragis got the idea for One Day University about three years ago when he was visiting his daughter, a freshman at Bard College. There were about 600 to 700 parents there, Mr. Schragis said, and they were all thinking the same thing: “I wish I were going to college instead of paying for college.”

I don't remember giving my permission to be quoted, though. I like a good idea that also makes money. The One Day University has grossed over a million dollars in its first year.