We do not need a nation of college graduates. You might as well claim that every one of us needs to know how to do welding, how to prune bushes, or how to drive a truck.
College is specialized education for specific needs. That’s why there are so many different colleges, so we can choose one specific to what we want to accomplish. Engineering, math, law school, history, psychology, teaching — each person goes to some specific college, and doesn’t learn the skills of the other colleges.
If every person needs some college education, it’s only because the K-12 education system has failed. That was supposed to give us all the basics necessary to move on to any field, and if it isn’t, the answer isn’t to dumb down college and force everybody to do another 4 years of schooling.
We’d probably teach everything we needed if we didn’t waste so much of public school time teaching stuff that the state has no business worrying about. And we could also start failing kids who don’t learn, so they can be held back and learn, rather than having to go off to community college.
But really, Obama doesn’t care about education here — college professors are largely liberals, and he’s just looking out for their jobs.
Don’t you wish he would shut up for just a few hours?