Comments on: Republicans think college education is the enemy https://habitablezone.com/2017/07/13/republicans-think-college-education-is-the-enemy/ Tue, 07 Apr 2026 19:18:10 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: hank https://habitablezone.com/2017/07/13/republicans-think-college-education-is-the-enemy/#comment-39667 hank Fri, 14 Jul 2017 12:05:45 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=65471#comment-39667 You teach a working class kid a little economics, history, psychology, humanities and sociology, and he becomes immune to your bullshit. And when those kids grow up and become college professors themselves, they bring up the next generation right. The WWII GI Bill made the 1960s possible. The Vietnam GI Bill made the 1960s inevitable. That’s why it’s harder for working class kids to get a college education today, and when they do get it, it’s likely to be substandard, and they’ll spend the rest of their life paying for it. That’s no accident, its deliberate planning. Education no longer seeks to produce a better person, or citizen; it exists only to provide skills needed by business–or to delude the rubes their bogus degree will actually help them get a job. You teach a working class kid a little economics, history, psychology, humanities and sociology, and he becomes immune to your bullshit. And when those kids grow up and become college professors themselves, they bring up the next generation right. The WWII GI Bill made the 1960s possible. The Vietnam GI Bill made the 1960s inevitable.

That’s why it’s harder for working class kids to get a college education today, and when they do get it, it’s likely to be substandard, and they’ll spend the rest of their life paying for it. That’s no accident, its deliberate planning. Education no longer seeks to produce a better person, or citizen; it exists only to provide skills needed by business–or to delude the rubes their bogus degree will actually help them get a job.

]]> By: mcfly https://habitablezone.com/2017/07/13/republicans-think-college-education-is-the-enemy/#comment-39666 mcfly Fri, 14 Jul 2017 06:27:57 +0000 https://www.habitablezone.com/?p=65471#comment-39666 Toxic, at least, to a rational and intelligent America, one capable of leading in the 21st century. They've turned the country's decline into a free-fall. Toxic, at least, to a rational and intelligent America, one capable of leading in the 21st century. They’ve turned the country’s decline into a free-fall.

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