Honestly,....Nearly all the jobs in the economy merely require a sound mastery of reading, writing, arithmetic, and a varying amount of specialized study and training. I would add that to be functional in society a basic understanding of the history of Western Civilization, geography, economics, and civics is also needed...but...attendance at a college or university is absolutely not necessary to acquire any of this knowledge or skill.
I believe that there are several underlying motivations for this Marxist push toward universal college for all youth:
**Increasing debt and lengthy years in school keep youth in a state of babyhood and burdens them with debt. They are less likely to marry and form families, or greatly delay forming families. This is accompanied by more out-of-wedlock sexual activity. Fundamentally, the Marxist wish to destroy the family and Christian sexual inhibitions.
**Obama and the Marxists depend upon the education-industrial complex for votes. What better way to increase votes than to increase the size of the education-industrial complex?
**The longer a young person is in college the more influence his Marxist professors will have over his long term worldview. This means more votes for the Marxists.
** Once a young person leaves school he is mugged by economic reality. Reality produces conservatives. The longer a young person can be kept in the warm soft womb of school, the more likely his is to vote for Marxists.
Regarding your post 85, I concur with you concerning why the Marxists want to get more and more young people into college for the conditioning you so ably point out.
On the other hand, it is a shame that the college industry (and that’s what it has turned into) has been taken over by the Leftists. I say that because if one restricted the college students to those with the abilities and desires to seek a higher education (as it once was), we end up with a more learned populace (but one heck of a smaller percentage than 60!).
And it is a pleasure to speak with and write to people who have higher education. I bet that you would agree with me that it is relatively easy to determine whether the person you are dealing with has a college degree. No?
P.S. Thanks for pointing out that medical school is a trade school. A high level trade school, to be sure, but a trade school, nevertheless.