Schools that boast their rankings for marketing to get more students, seem to me like they’re just focused more on other things rather than on education itself. The advertised employment rate of such schools fits in that circle as well. This somewhat tells what the system is all about.

“We are like butterflies who flutter for a day and think it is forever.”
― Carl Sagan, Cosmos

The need to win

When an archer is shooting for nothing

He has all his skill.

If he shoots for a brass buckle

He is already nervous.

If he shoots for a prize of gold

He goes blind

Or sees two targets

He is out of his mind!


His skill has not changed. But the prize

Divides him. He cares.

He thinks more of winning

Than of shooting-

And the need to win

Drains him of power.


from “The Way of Chuang Tzu” by Thomas Merton

https://youtu.be/lXwJbj9UpMg