> My education taught me to believe that people who didn’t go to an Ivy League or equivalent school weren’t worth talking to, regardless of their class. I was given the unmistakable message that such people were beneath me.

That's not an elite education, that's a bad education.

Yeah... I went to an ivy league school and I've never felt remotely that way, nor did any of my friends.

Sure, some of my classmates were snobs, and there was probably a higher concentration of them (snobs are drawn to prestige-granting institutions, after all), but I wouldn't blame the education for that.

You find the same kind of attitude with any exclusive groups, from employees of fancy tech companies to country clubs to religious & political organizations.

They went full XKCD 927 (https://xkcd.com/927/) and what started as an attempt to introduce students to the diversity of all cultures ended up forcing them into a new culture antithetical to all other cultures.