That more people should go to college is usually taken as a given. People with college degrees make a lot more than people without them, and that difference has been growing. But does that mean that we should help more kids go to college–or that we should make it easier for people who didn’t go to college to make a living?

应该让更多人上大学往往被视为理所当然。有大学学位的人比没有大学学位的人挣钱多得多，而这种差距还在扩大。但这就意味着我们应该帮助更多孩子上大学吗？或者，我们应该让未上大学的人更容易谋生吗？