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I've read that a major contributor the economic disaster called the 1970s was that all the flower children got "crap" degrees and couldn't apply them in the real world. So what did they do? They kept going to school. And when they still couldn't successfully integrate into society, they simply became faculty members. These flower children with crap degrees now fill our children's heads with mindless left-wing propaganda the the university.

Imagine if the government didn't pay for all those leftists to get worthless degrees? How would have the Vietnam-era scene on campus looked if government wasn't subsidizing the education of protesting students??? How would our current political scene look if none of today's leftists (and yesterday's college radicals) got a free education on how to destroy the capitalist system?

Well, few made it into real "faculty" (not enough brains) but a lot made teachers and educators. However, and this is the interesting part, the majority got absorbed by industry. It was the ability to argue, present, and entice that made them perfect candidates for sales manangers, company reps and team leaders. The are a lot of them in upper management nowadays.

On a side note, this is not just an American occurence - Europe has seen the same.

I am much more concerned about the lack of citizenship knowledge in today's engineers. Most of our grads couldn't find Afghanistan on a map. Most hit 30 and have never been to another continent. You ask them to explain what Tesla and Maxwell did for science and they don't have a clue. As an engineer one will contribute to society. It would be good to KNOW a little bit about the latter.