Posted on 10/18/2003 7:08:37 AM PDT by MeneMeneTekelUpharsin
Every year, chances are pretty high that you'll have medical expenses. Few of us encounter education-related expenses every year.
"The reason higher education costs are increasing faster than inflation is the same reason health care costs are spiraling: consumers no longer pay for it. Everyone gets subsidized: grants, subidized loans etc., etc. So institutions are insulated from market pressures to adapt or reform or control their costs."
I agree 100 percent. The best way to solve our cost issues in education is to completely privatize it and provide a voucher system for the parents. This would solve the quality issue as well.
As far as health care, make insurance illegal except for "catastrophic" (over $10,000 in a single year)and return to the days when the patient paid almost all of his medical expenses directly to the doctor or hospital. The attorneys would have to find another pile of easy money to go after instead of the insurance company vault and we all would be better off.
Have you always been grossly ignorant? Oh I forgot.. you are eductated... that explains it!!!
The auto industry and its high wages were invented by an uneducated Henry Ford. He completed the 8th grade. And was the man who in one fell swoop doubled wages for factory workers. Where were the Harvard business graduates when the car for the common man was invented.
It was Thomas Edison who never finished the first grade that invented the light bulb, motion pictures, the phonograph and many other things. Where were the MIT graduates when these inventions were created.
The airplane was invented by two uneducated bicycle repairmen. Where there the educated engineers when it came time to fly.
Why was the greatest invention of the last 30 years done by two College dropouts. Jobs ans Wozniak invented the PC. The Cal Tech and MIT people at the time were writing papers on how it could not be done. The college professors were giving lectures that a C compiler could not be created for the PC when a drop out who never took their course proved them wrong by creating one. It was college drop out Bill Gates who created the huge PC software industry. It is the great college graduates that tend to ruin companies not grow them.
A great education teaches one to do what has always been done. To create jobs and change the world for the better requires thinking outside the box. Education is entirely made up of in the box thinking.
Back in the 1980s when the media was calling Japan the economic miracle that would destroy us economically, there was constant credit given to the Japanese educational system. I wrote a column with the kicker line that it was evident that the Japanese were getting all the education they were paying for. The good news for us was that WE WERE NOT. Look at what the Japanese educational system has wrought.
It takes our educational system 16 years to totally destroy creativity and make normally creative people into well rounded students totally endowed with the innate desire to make no waves.
Without an education, the vast majority of individuals (not in possession of exceptional determination) are not going to be able to get decent jobs or somehow make a decent living.
I clearly stated that individuals with drive and determination can accomplish in life. Did I anywhere say a person HAD to have an education? And, times have changed rather dramatically. The vast majority of individuals who do not get an education end up in poverty. True statistics show that result. Yes, a FEW exceptions to the rule do well in life...but they are NOT the norm and certainly not the majority.
Last, but not least, you like many others on here are making a huge mistake. You make perjorative statments about individuals who are supposed to be your allies, thus creating new enemies among your own friends. Very foolish and definitely self-destructive.
P.S. My well-meant advice to you is to NOT ever do that again.
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