The vast majority of High School graduates should be getting jobs to learn the value of work, not going to college to learn the value of Socialism.
Exactly right. I remember when people had a skeptical attitude about higher ed, back when Professor Irwin Corey was the caricature of a college professor.
There's nothing wrong with a true liberal arts education. But it's not the same thing as vocational training, or learning the value of hard work.
“There’s nothing wrong with a true liberal arts education.”
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I could not agree more, in fact I think everyone should have it regardless of what kind of training they go after as a way to make a living. The problem is where does one get a liberal arts education now, as opposed to merely getting a degree in liberal arts?
I received a diploma from a public high school in 1962 and went straight into the Navy. I spent my first year after boot camp going to electronics school which was purely technical. In recent years I have noticed that no one seems to use the English language properly except for some of the old folks. The younger ones do not understand pronouns, they use astounding double negative constructions and often seem to think they are saying the exact opposite of what their actual words convey. They are hopelessly lost when attempting to use words like there, their and they’re, your and you’re, its and it’s, the list goes on and on, they use apostrophes for plurals. Most English TEACHERS in our schools now probably could not pass an eighth grade English final from my era.
Don’t even talk about history, I know from conversations within the past ten years that recent graduates of the university a few miles from my home could not pass an eighth grade history final from my era and I am speaking of those who MAJORED in history! No wonder they seem to have no understanding of the nature of our current disaster, they know little or nothing of what has gone before and much of what they think they know is wrong. They have spent years going for “higher education”, they have foregone the income they might have earned during those years and on top of that many if not most have run up major debt to pay for this HEINO (higher education in name only). When someone spends four or more years and huge sums of money to major in history and literally cannot pass a grade school history test from his grandfather’s time what in the world is going on? They are hanging sheepskins without being qualified to even ENTER a REAL post high school educational institution. These young people have been cruelly robbed of opportunity and of the money paid to these worthless diploma mills.
What we need is real K-12 education of the sort that used to be available.