Writing for the John William Pope Center, George Leef argues that not every child should strive for college. Leef bases his remarks on a new book by Charles Murray, who says we are "asking too much from those at the bottom, asking the wrong things from those in the middle, and asking too little from those at the top."

Murray has a controversial history on the topic of intellectual capacity, to be sure. Regardless of what you think of his bell curve hypothesis, we're all built differently, and not everyone enjoys or benefits from college. So why push it as the only path for high school students? The result of trying to universalize college: college is degraded for those who really enjoy and benefit from it, and those who would benefit from vocational or on-the-job training end up having a poor fit with college and life after college.

Leef and Murray's argument remind me of the idea that universal home ownership is a good idea, too. We all know how that has turned out.