  > Sadly, education does not correct psychopathic traits, which might be overrepresented in c-suites, and selected for in politicians.
  >> Seems to me the venn diagram of "congress and c-suites" vs "educated people" would have one circle wholly inside the other.

Both things can be true.

  > look no further than the massive amount of debt we saddle on kids.

See politicians and c-suites populated by psychopaths for the origins of this problem.

  > I didn't learn a _thing_ in college that I haven't learned better either at $dayjob, or from reading.

Putting it a bit bluntly, like any other activity, one gets out of it what one puts into it. I had a very different experience from yours, accents and language skills notwithstanding. But there is so much variation in a domain so broad in our country that is so big, it doesn't necessarily invalidate your experience.

  > College/education lost the plot. The sooner we admit it, the sooner we can fix it.

There is a long list/tradition of higher education through thousands of years of human history, with Harvard/MIT/Oxford being the pre-eminent ones today. [1][2]

What alternative do you propose? For humans, and AI?

  [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_higher-learning_institutions
  [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_oldest_universities_in_continuous_operation