While watching the presidential debate last night, it occurred to me that both candidates support an education idea that is slowing brining this nation to ruin - the idea that higher education should be available for all. This is total nonsense.
Once, the United States represented the zenith of industrial achievement, both in terms of industrial output and the wealth of knowledge created by skilled labor. Such is not the case any longer as the frivolous idea of everyone being able to go to college has eroded our industrial base. No longer do people want to learn a skilled trade and enter industry - they want their worthless MBAs or accounting degrees. They want their computer science degrees and masters of arts in the humanities. While all these are well and good, if everyone has them, who the hell does the damned work in the industrial sectors? Once, those degrees meant something as a sign of status and elitism, but if everyone has one, that levels the field. No wonder bachelors degrees are viewed as near-worthless documents.
This nation has been transformed from a skilled labor nation to a service nation. Without heavy industry, this nation is doomed, and the idea that everyone can go to college is destroying this nation! The middle-class quest for education is ruining this state! One reason factories are shipped overseas is because people don't want to work there any more! When parents tell their children they are going to college to get an education (more like a vocation) so they don't have to work in the factory like they did, it is no wonder the work ethic of the United States has been brought down!
Higher education is NOT an entitlement. When it is, what will there be left?
Thursday, October 16, 2008
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