The Real Cost of a College Education

Last week, the total amount of debt emanating from student loans in the U.S. reached $1 trillion. With the Great Recession still present in the daily lives of the middle class, salaried jobs for college graduates are tough to come by. Many have had to settle for low wage positions stocking shelves in retail stores or serving coffee at the local Starbucks. According to the Associate Press, three out of five new graduates are unemployed. The dissatisfaction these Bachelor’s Degree holders have with the lack of jobs manifested into last fall’s Occupy movement....

This is to be expected however since many economic departments are staffed with neo-Marxists; often describing themselves as Keynesians.... As college is incrementally being pushed to be the next mandatory step after high school, the real goal is to keep young minds infatuated with the state. As Freeman editor Sheldon Richman points out, the purpose of public education is not to aid in the development of a learned populace but to produce unthinking workers. Based off the educational system of 19th century Prussia, America’s public schools were originally designed to condition children toward a sense of “obedience, subordination and collective life.”

 

Creating an orderly citizenry incapable of critical thinking makes sense for the ruling class. Control and order are the bread and butter of the state. Creative intelligence poses a challenge to central planners. It makes it harder to tug at the marionette strings.

                                     ................ James E Miller