If you're a high school junior or senior thinking about options for college - or the parent of such a budding adult - I hope you've recognized by now that the time and money invested in a college degree is not necessarily the value society is always trying to convince you it is. But just in case you're still wallowing in that delusion, you might want to listen to Geoffrey L. Collier. He is in the trenches, a professor of psychology at South Carolina State University, and yesterday he published a devastating piece in the Wall Street Journal that lays bare what a joke higher education has really become.