This “nugget” from a midget, mentally and physically, who has infested academia for decades.
Notice how this elitist isn’t proposing making higher education more ACCESSIBLE to the middle class, oh no, he’s just telling the middle class to stop thinking about upward mobility! He is not addressing the fact that liberal arts education has become a luxury item for the rich, he just says, learn how to become a technician. Now, all work is dignified, and yes, we do need more technicians, but my alma mater only cost $8,000 per year when I attended and now it costs $62,000 per year. There is no rationale for this inflation. Some economist!
He may be right in some circumstances. Most of the time,though,Robert Reich is a ludicrous waste of money.
Germany does this much better. They have trades training in high schools. Businesses and unions have excellent apprenticeship programs.
Most importantly, perhaps, they have no idiotic notions that to be promoted very far in a business one must have a finance or business degree. Lots of top executives in Germany were promoted from the factory floor.
Though to be fair they probably got business training later on, paid by the company. My point is that US firms ignore this major potential pool of talent.
Says the man who has been milking academia for an exorbitant paycheck his entire adult life.
Just make college free, and then it won’t cost so much. /liberal idiocy
They end up overqualified for the work they do, and underwhelmed by it.
And how would it make them overqualified for a real job?
Yeah, Reich, thanks to you and your good buddy Obama!
Robert Reich is behind the curve. Mike Rowe has this covered, AND is putting his money where his mouth is. Profoundlydisconnected.com
First time that I ever agreed with Robert Reichchch about anything. But he is spot on here.
From the turd who supported the rapist’s quote form 1992 about how it is an Inalienable right to go to college. Now that he colleges are pumping out idiots the asstroll wants to recant his thoughts.
Explains why colleges are now mostly the domain of liberal women. The men have moved on, particularly since the liberal faculties are hostile to men anyway.
Get hard skills.
When my brother in law was in university, he told his adviser, who was a sociology prof, that he too wanted to major in sociology.
The prof took him to the window and pointed to a 20 year old car (his) and said, “this is what a degree in soc gets you”.
He graduated with a degree in finance and accounting.
He is the reason for the destruction of college. The man is a leftist loony.