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I think first you have to define education! I like the idea that education is about how to make a life, not how to make a living. Once you accept that it is easy to accept the idea that classical education has been thrown out in favor of a lot of indoctrination combined with a certain amount of job training. Students who have no background in History, Literature, Language, Geography, Civics or Economics may have learned a way to make a living but they are not educated in my view. We do not call someone who has gone from high school to welding school and become a master welder “highly educated” in spite of the fact that welding is a very technical profession and requires many years of study and practice to master. Why do we call someone who has gone from high school to a college where he learned to program computers highly educated? Is it simply because he got his job training at a college or university rather than at a technical school? When I was a public high school student anyone who did not know how many feet were in a statute mile was considered dull and slow but most college graduates now cannot tell you how many feet are in a mile. That is a trivial matter but when I meet college graduates who majored in history but cannot tell me the answer to history questions I had to answer by eighth grade to get into high school that is not so trivial in my opinion.

People who are really educated have enough understanding of history and of human nature to know better than to believe a word that comes out of the mouth of someone who is pushing collectivist government because they know it has never created anything but misery in the long run and they understand the world well enough to know why it never will create anything but misery in the long run. Anyone who claims to believe otherwise is either a liar who is simply pushing that type of government for his own benefit or he is ignorant and or stupid, not educated. No one who actually believes in that sort of thing is truly educated. People like Hillary Clinton certainly don’t believe in it, they push it because they are in the minority who receive the riches stolen from productive people. This is why the left has always depended on two groups who don’t seem to really belong together, those with graduate degrees and those with less than a high school diploma. The advanced degree holders are usually benefitting in one way or another from big government and those with little education are voting for giveaway programs, those in between know who pays the bill. Many of those who benefit the most are in the “higher education” racket. It definitely has become a racket. People routinely require degrees for jobs of the sort that would have been done in the past by high school dropouts, as an example front line supervisory jobs used to go to people who had at the most a high school education, now they routinely require a degree.