If more education is better, then the higher you go, the more money you make!
Right?
Um, not quite:
36,000 new PhDs each year, and only around 3,000 new positions created.
Nothing new or surprising there.
What is called “academia” is not dominated by academicians, but by bueaucrats who raise the cost of what is called “higher education” while fattening themselves at the public trough.
Higher education spending goes more and more to administrators, not to faculties, and, for that matter, NASA seems more interested in feeding its bureaucracy than in going to Mars, or even back to the Moon.
But the New Class isn’t just in the government, and it isn’t just about money. Along with the government employees are numerous others in related positions, all of which have something to do with facilitating political control: journalism, academia, the entertainment media. These people tend to have a degree of class solidarity; that’s why the news media overwhelmingly tend to define social problems in terms of government solutions, why academia favors a pro-government-power narrative, and why Hollywood productions have businessmen as villains far more often than bureaucrats.
Too bad they can’t be voted out.
Unfortunately, they have arranged things so that their power is pretty much untouchable no matter who the voters elect.
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3 responses to “But we should all have the right to an education!”
You go to college for an education not a job! Thomas jefferson did not go to william and mary college to get a job. I did not go to arizona state foot ball and party school to get a job ;but to try and learn somethings. I drove a truck to pay my way. I know it was a lot cheaper back then ;but junior colleges are still affordable for most. One of my teachers was Morris Starky who was terminated from asu for leading an anti-vietnam war demonstration so I learned a lot about arizona!
The weight of all this non-sense is on the verge of collapsing the system.
Unfortunately, they have arranged things so that their power is pretty much untouchable no matter who the voters elect.
Arrogance will be their downfall. They should step back and review the events of 1793.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reign_of_Terror
This picture sums up the haughty attitude; it should be labeled “Hubris”:
http://dish.andrewsullivan.com/2014/07/09/the-best-of-the-dish-today-194/