Posted on 03/18/2015 11:43:28 AM PDT by reaganaut1
The 2016 campaign has begun and higher education will probably play a bigger role than in any previous presidential campaign – and not because GOP contender Scott Walker is the first candidate in many years who didn’t earn a college degree.
Since LBJ’s Great Society, the federal government has been promoting higher education through grants and easy loans. Politicians in both parties hyped the personal and national benefits of college. Boosting it seemed like a good idea at the time, but then so did pushing home ownership to achieve “the American dream.” Like most federal policies, the college-for-everyone push led to unintended consequences that have recently become evident in high student debts, default rates, and underemployment among college grads.
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College is great if you’re going into a math-heavy engineering field, or medical. Otherwise, it’s pretty much just a useless piece of paper.
Dang it...
Once again, I must have an old copy of the constitution. My copy doesn’t list higher education as being one of the specific purposes given to the federal government.
Can anyone tell me where to get the latest version? Thanks.
Not sure where we got the idea that everyone should go to college.
If we consider the structure of the economy , it seems that most jobs and career fields really don’t require a college education.
If we are honest with ourselves , those of us who are middle.class and/or professionally employed, have encouraged our children to go to college. And we collectively have encouraged this regardless of what job or careers our children may have in mind.
"Since LBJ’s Great Society, the federal government has been promoting higher education through grants and easy loans."
FR: Never Accept the Premise of Your Opponent’s Argument
The major constitutional problem with this issue is that the states have never delegated to the feds, expressly via the Constitution, the specific power to regulate, tax and spend for intrastate schooling purposes. Corrupt federal lawmakers have likely made federal grants and loans for schooling purposes available to win votes from low-information student voters who have never been taught about the federal government’s constitutionally limited powers.
Add constitutionally indefensible federal grants and loans for schooling purposes to the list of reasons to repeal the ill-conceived 17th Amendment.
Once companies couldn’t administer an IQ test they were forced to use a 4 year degree as a weed out. Now that plenty of morons are getting a 4 year degree, the masters degree is going to be the new standard. Since we can’t test ability any more you need a string of letters after your name to get your foot in the door.
The US education system is broken.
You know it needs to be fixed when a poor black foreign aid student can’t even get his diploma and a college transcript of his grades after graduation.
I’m surprised that Barack hasn’t complained to Columbia University and Harvard Law School about this.
Article nails my biggest beef with the whole situation.
Five or six decades of education industry propaganda have Pavlov-trained employers to believe that you can’t perform any job above the level of janitor or cashier without a Bachelors Degree in Something from Catatonic State University.
I personally know people with high-school educations who have been trained to do complex jobs, and to do them very well. Because they are bright, trainable, and had the good fortune to, at some point, work for an employer who did not buy into the propaganda.
I needed college in order to go to law school. I also learned a couple of foreign languages. It was mostly useful. But I agree that most people don’t need a four year degree.
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