Closing colleges would create a nation of people wandering in the wilderness. I’m all for it.
“Closing colleges would create a nation of people wandering in the wilderness. I’m all for it.”
Closing colleges might create an entrepreneurial revolution, driving economic growth for decades. I offer as an example my 38 year old neighbor. At 18 he went to work for a carpenter and learned a trade. At 21 he bought his first home, a fixer upper he and his wife worked on at night and then flipped immediately. With the proceeds he bought another home to flip. Today, 20 years later, he owns 50 rental homes, three strip shopping centers and is breaking ground on his first housing development. Meanwhile, he and his wife have from 5-10 houses being renovated to flip using full time crews that work for his company.
He is not well spoken in the Ivy League sense. He and his wife are raising three adorable well mannered children. He is one of the smartest business people I’ve ever met, yet would probably not be able to get an appointment with a Goldman Sachs Harvard educated banker. However, he doesn’t need a banker because he funds his operations completely out of cash flow he creates.
Terminate the university systems and make the youth of American develop street smarts, learn the value of labor, and hustle. It is the only way to produce a new generation of Henry Fords, J.D. Rockefeller’s, and Thomas Edison’s. The school of hard knocks will teach more in a week than Harvard will in a year.