Chronicle of Higher Ed: Why Did 17 Million Students Go to College?
Statistics can lie, of course. I’ve run across many college graduates who couldn’t spell or add figures. Do the diminutive jobs mean there is too much education, or might it also mean that education is failing? There are a lot of larger questions that plain numbers are not going to answer.
The right wing of American politics has hated public schools for eons, attacked them and handicapped them gleefully since Reagan, and this broader attack on intelligence seems a recent ante-up in their game. As we have “Just In Time” manufacturing, it seems we should only have “Just Enough” intelligence.
When was excess intelligence, unused capacity, ever a bad thing for a human being? You can’t predict the future. A person can work in many different industries, at many different levels in a lifetime. Time and again I’ve used pieces and parts of what I’ve learned, and I’ve been damned grateful for all of it.
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