Today, a college education has become a commodity like everything else. What’s worse, it’s become another wedge in the culture wars, a target for self-defeating class resentments and bogus beefs about elitism… And meanwhile, students are exploited for their revenue potential, saddled with crippling loans and pushed into high-paying fields like finance to pay off those loans. Our culture becomes the loser in that deal. So, yes, even if you are childless, you should support good and affordable higher education to your last breath. Because an educated society is a rational one, an affluent one and a moral one… We are a middle-class culture, and the idea of upward mobility is in our DNA. But education is the ladder that allows for that upward mobility. Without it, our middle class disappears and we become what just about every miserable society in history has become, a hard-and-fast divide of a tiny wealthy elite and a vast, scared population imprisoned by poverty and ignorance.

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by Wallace Baine, Santa Cruz Sentinel.

Posted: September 27th, 2009, by: admin. Categories: . Awaiting Comments.