The Failure of Education

We have a myth propagated by the educators and passed around by those indoctrinated by them when they were SUPPOSED to be undergoing education instead.

This false notion is that a a four year degree is absolutely required to succeed in life.
 

So now we have a lot of uneducated drop outs strapped with educational loans they cannot repay and no prospects of anything in the way of gainful employment.

This is due to the change in the workforce landscape. Whereas once upon a time you went to the factory worked for 30 or so years. Retired and collected a pension.

Blue collar employment has been widely supplanted by white collar technical pursuits which have arisen largely from the advent of the information age.

When I entered the field, the only training programs were either military or at the PhD level. Now there are programs in every limp dick run by idiots technical school on the planet ...

And still there are closures and defaults and unfinished programs everywhere and not everyone gets a job due to their ending point skill set.

I was lucky. I was "hand trained" in a real world application where I was required to learn and perform in all aspects of hardware, software, and media where you were self sufficient or terminated.

Why then do 44 million educational debtors owe in excess of $1.5 trillion dollars in the United States alone.

Too much riff raff. Too much diploma mill. Too little education and hands on training. Little to no oversight.

Too many Educators are like the Nazis pillaging the Eastern European bloc.

Nobody guards the henhouse. They just exhaust funds and look to affix blame somewhere else when the well runs dry.