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A few weeks ago, the proprietor of this establishment (J.D. “The letters in ‘Get Rich Slowly’ can be rearranged to spell ‘The Sly Cowgirl’” Roth) asked me to address a reader’s question — specifically, how should a parent save for college (perhaps because I once wrote a book on the topic, though it’s now outdated). But first, let me say this:

College costs too much, it saddles young people with too much debt, and it forces students to “learn” things they’ll soon forget — and it won’t matter because it wouldn’t help them further their careers anyhow.

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