There is such a thing

...as a bad university education, in much the same way that faulty products exist everywhere in the market. Even when it's a marketplace of ideas, as my pal TC used to say.

The Steyn, National Review (on the Quebec student riots):

Whoever writes the epitaph of Western civilization will marvel at the thoroughness with which higher education led to mass delusion — indeed, mass moronization.

h/t Pundette