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Entry: The Great Education Bubble Link: http://www.takimag.com/blogs/article/the_great_education_bubble#26163 Post contents: "A certain percentage of students belong in college, benefit from it, and have higher wages afterwards." In the grand scheme of our species, it doesn't really matter if the student benefits from college. College is a quid-pro-quo, and what matters is whether society is benefiting from the education of the students, and how many need to actually be highly educated. The current system is simply additional years of entertainment at a high price, so everyone is fooled into thinking they are getting more than they would from experience and books on their own simply because the credential allows them to buy more 'stuff'. I think we only need the 2% going to college, and the rest should be simply studying for life as they do useful work. We could also eliminate about half to 3/4ths of the high schools in this country and not see a significant change in innovation or technology. What are people FOR? It's time to grow up as a species and start planning our behaviors as though individuals can be useful to the world as something other than consumers of services and resources. Great work. Thanks. Sent at: 2008 07 24