I attended Catholic School as a kid and, bruised knuckles from the nuns notwithstanding, it put me on a path to success. I received a quality education.
My concern today is, given the secular liberal "religion" that is dominant on college campuses, education is being replaced with indoctrination. Increasingly, it tends towards the genuinely idiotic if not clinically insane.
Here's one example
California professors instructed not to say
Thus, two major policy changes are among what's needed to fix this problem.
1. Eliminate tenure nationwide ... make a teaching career dependent upon competence not longevity. The original intent was to protect academic freedom but that no longer applies given the rampant liberal orthodoxy which smothers universities today. Any deviation is punished harshly.
2. Mandate ideological diversity. Today, 90% plus of the faculty are leftists ... lets' redefine diversity laws to mandate an approximation to what the ideological makeup of the country is such that its' reflected in the faculty. I think that would put education back on the correct path. There would be a lot of caterwauling but that would subside after a full transition. It would also kill political correctness thankfully. (that alone makes it worthwhile)