India, Sept. 14 -- Slain Charlie Kirk called college a "scam" and urged young people to think twice before signing up for a four-year degree. The conservative activist and founder of Turning Point USA was shot and killed at Utah Valley University on Wednesday.

Kirk argued that higher education had become too costly, rewarded conformity, and no longer taught the skills students need for the workforce. He told Fox News when promoting his 2022 book The College Scam: "Anything but college."

He described the book as a "ten-count indictment," written like a prosecutor laying out charges against American universities.

Kirk's case had three main parts. First was cost. He said college was "a federally sponsored scam" because government-backed l...