The value of internships

Jen Paton opines on how it's diminishing:

Many people are outrageously exploited at work, but interns are not among them. After all, they are getting a free education, something that few universities provide these days. To say internships provide a “free education” is laughable. Whatever the benefits to companies and organizations, universities, and a few of us privileged students, whether one is paying ones way via savings, Daddy, or a grant , there is certainly a cost to spending eight hours or more a day in an office and not getting paid for it, particularly in the big city. As we should know by now, whatever the market can bear is not necessarily what is best.