Yes, I know, I’ve seen the bumperstickers too. “More schools fewer jails” or something like that. If we needed more proof that they were nonsense, the 9/11 planners were among the richest, best educated of Muslims. They weren’t striking out of privation or despair, but out of hatred (most of it probably inculcated by our own schools) and a thirst for power and self aggrandizement. By and large this is true of our criminals too. There might have been — truly, I doubt it — back in the time of Dickens people who stole bread because they were hungry and were therefore horribly punished. Maybe. Most of what we hear of that is via authors like Dickens who thought they knew better ways to organize society and who had an ax to grind.
...So any possible “plus” of free college for all (I presume that’s the type of education this moral monster was speaking about, since high school is already free) was linked by this tenuous idea of the liberal left that education thwarts crime. (It might even have been true once, when education was, unapologetically, about teaching the bourgeois virtues, but that type of education, nowadays, is non-existent, destroyed by the left itself. What is left is more on the grounds of teaching people why they’ve been wronged by society and that, as you might understand, does not inculcate probity or respect for society’s laws.)
...I find it really useful, in general, in life, particularly in complex situations to ask “who benefits from this?” and “who controls this?” It tells you everything you need to know. If those people are not the same, then you’re going to get malinvestment.
Sarah writes about her education though the 11th grade in Portugal, then turns her attention to America, where she completed the 12th grade.
America is more egalitarian and during its long march to the left has gotten quite averse to the claims of merit. Because I’ll point out my husband also had practically free education, because he got a full ride scholarship. These are rarer now for merit. Merit is — AT BEST — a factor, taken in account with ethnicity and other signs of “group oppression” which have nothing to do with oppression.Read more here.
...Professors’ lobbying have much more influence with the government than employers do. Already curriculums include a good dose of “grievance studies” that have no relevance to the market place and are only kept alive to give some professors jobs. Already a good course on Western History is impossible to come by.
What more will happen with free college? Oh, what won’t happen. (“The fun we will have” — in a Dr. Seuss voice.)
First of all it will go the way of mandatory high school. Most people are now graduating from high school with literacy skills that would get them flunked of middle school 25 years ago. Note “most” (I made d*mn sure my kids could read and write at a level that didn’t disgust me) and also no I’m not exaggerating. I have for my sins been conscripted to help college students with work. Their reasoning skills are non-existent (their indoctrination is impeccable, though.)
In short, most people graduating high school are NOT ready for college. You put them in college and it’s “bonehead college” all the way. This means more “studies” degrees, where the learning is fuzzy and it’s very easy to pass even if you can barely spell your name, at least in some colleges.
...People would get in with barely algebra, and the classes would all be dumbed down. the resulting bs wouldn’t be worth the paper it’s printed on. Depending on how far the “free” goes, employers would start demanding masters or doctorates, thereby delaying the time when young people become productive members of society and can start families of their own.
We can’t afford free college for all. It would be an empty piece of paper. And it would cost the future.
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