My main point of disagreement with the author was his belief that the college system will collapse on its own, absent a societal cataclysm. I think it is more likely that, just like the K-12 system, it will continue just as it is, consuming ever more resources and facilitating less education.
When you have a huge system like “education” or “health care,” it’s easy to theorize about how better results could be achieved. However, it’s nearly impossible to move from “what we have now” to “something totally different.”
TC
Gimmie 10 minutes in DC with the Dept of Education. A big room, a mike, and bulletproof glass.
Gone...all of them!
We're using the wrong words when we think.
I don't want to "move" from one place to another.
I want to stop right here.
If society just dropped out and nullified the public school system, the void would be filled with something else because nature abhors a vacuum.
If society ever GOT to that place, society would have already a replacement for public school.
Probably a couple of local teachers for each neighborhood or community.
The trick is getting everyone to think on the same plane and that requires a common language which, BTW, is not LOL LMFAO, BRB
Personally, the first step is to get public education properly identified as socialist indoctrination.
Once the general population gets THAT, the conversation will begin.
You are correct that it will take a long time, but we have started chipping away; and some incursions are possible until one of the big ones falls. Then, we may hope for a domino effect.
I also think the internet is helping expose the "fake education" at the major schools the same way it is sowing justifiable mistrust in many of our news organizations. This will encourage applicants and corporate hiring managers to look to smaller and less expensive schools.
The internet and online education are carving a bite out of higher ed. It may not be much now, but considering the collapse of admissions to some of the schools after ridiculous outbursts of leftism have taken place, some institutions are vulnerable on a piecemeal basis.
Examples:When Satanists wanted to hold a Black Mass at Harvard's Memorial Hall honoring war dead, the alumni soon "reasoned" with the adminstration to deny access, demonstrating that alumni money still talks, in spite of Harvard's gargantuan endowment.
U Missouri's admissions plunged after an explosion of BLM in 2015 caught the interest of viral social media across the country.
Last year's anti-white, anti-authority protests at Evergreen University have lowered enrollment alarmingly, and one of the white science professors who was targeted for destruction (for not wanting to suspend classes in order to participate in denouncing his own race) successfully sued.
In 2014, born-again Christian conservative UNC-W professor of criminal justice Mike Adams won a seven-year long battle for tenure that had previously been denied because of his viewpoint, allowing him to continue not just teaching future law enforcement professionals, but also his Townhall columns that excoriate excesses of political correctness on campuses across the nation.