[Governor Dinwiddie]

Interesting. Probably half our college students should have been put on a trades track instead. I remember when Sputnik was launched, there was a HUGE panic that the American educational system had to catch up. Very few college students today are academically oriented or curious.

We also have a race problem in America where popular culture makes it "cool" to ape a certain race, and their disdain for education in particular.

[TheBattman]

1979-1980 began the “great lie” - that all American students needed college. The propaganda flowed (guess where from: The US Department of Education, Jimmy Carter’s dream agency). The entire scam drove demand through the roof, with tuition and related costs likewise skyrocketing. All while colleges and universities have grown dumber and push a massive volume of literally worthless, non-academic “majors” and degrees.

Russia (and many other nations... even some far more Leftist than us) still treated higher education as something to be earned/deserved/worked for - and it generally limited admissions to those with ability, drive, and often $$$).

[alternatives?]

Don’t forget the mother track. Mother isn’t a bad word.

[alternatives?]

Just think of how much better the world would have been if Hillary had birthed and raised 10 kids. It’s likely some would have rebelled as well.