Degrees of Separation

Is this article an advertisement for the University of Wisconsin's business school??

I am laughing that the writer really seems to be SHOCKED there is life west of New York City. I love Manhattan but the arrogance is really unbelieveable. I live in downtown Chicago and work at a CPG Fortune 100 company. I walk 2 blocks to work and own a home. Yes, you can have a great life in the midwest; there are intelligent people that are not in the finance industry - another surprise! And boo hoo to the Wharton grads that are "actually going to work for nonprofits!" - wow, they can actually do some good in the world, rather than speculating in the stock market with America's retirement savings. This article is useless, it only tells us what most of the US already knows - there are other business schools than Wharton and Harvard that produce successful graduates.

Madison, with its three-legged economic stool of education, state government, and health care ? This just show how ignorant Daniel Gross's perspective is. Where does he think the MONEY to keep Madisons 'triad' ecenomy comes from? Government produces nothing, Education produces 'almost nothing' and health care, while necessary, is pretty much another drain on society. All three of these entities are leeches that feed of private enterprise. Where will we be when there is no host left for the leeches to feed on?

My reading of this article did not put college tuition as the topic. I did find some hope that maybe we are learning from this current financial mess. What we need from business schools is graduates that are well rounded, interested in being a productive part of society not just money for me machines. It seems like so many of us feel we have to make the big bucks then we can do some good, just maybe we can do some good while we are making a living.