The primary fact abut any college or university is that it is a place where
> working-class people earn a living (and faculty is included in working
> class). Any attack on the university is therefore, first of all, an attack
> on the working class.
>
Sheer silliness. Police forces, prisons, execution chambers, and militaries are also "place[s] where working-class people earn a living." In fact, it's hard to think of any meaningful atrocity, more significant than a serial killer knocking off a dozen or so people, that has occurred over the last century without some working stiff drawing a paycheck from it. I don't mean to categorize higher education alongside mass murder, but if your best defense of it starts with an observation that it's a living, you might as well.
-- "Hige sceal þe heardra, heorte þe cenre, mod sceal þe mare, þe ure mægen lytlað."