“Our education system from preschool to grad school is hopelessly broken.”
I agree.
I’m in my 70s now, and I went to college many years ago. I got my degree, and started a career. I am retired now.
However, If I was a young man today I would avoid college like the plague, and would go to a good trade school and learn something useful. A good tradesman — or tradeswoman — is essential, and can make a good living and provide for his or her family. The wokesters with their gender studies degrees can live in communal hives and feed on themselves.
The only exception to this would be students who are serious about the STEM disciplines, because there still may be some universities that offer quality programs.
But we shouldn't kid ourselves that we aren't losing a great deal by ceding the humanities to the kooks. The Founders were familiar with Cicero, Locke, Montesquieu, and some probably the Scholastics, Plato and Aristotle in summary or translation.
Can you understand the Declaration without Locke? Locke without Hobbes? Hobbes without Machiavelli? Machiavelli without the Scholastics and Aristotle? The whole intellectual underpinning of our civilization is being destroyed.
We are close to having ceded what Lenin called the "commanding heights" of our political economy to a corporate-fascist state. Ceding the "commanding heights" of our intellectual life to these commie kooks isn't going to make the fight against the political left and their corporate allies any easier.
One problem with the trades is that it’s hard on the body—a white collar worker can keep working maybe decades longer than a blue collar worker can….