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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Most kids in college today are dumb as rocks. Degrees mean nothing. I would tell any kid today to pick a trade school over some $200k debt that likely won’t amount to much. No I’m not anti university, but those videos of college kids who don’t even know proper math or geography is troubling. [/quote]

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[b]Yes, as opposed to 75 years ago, when the only people who went to college were white, non-jew UMC men.  Because they were all so smart, and it just happened they were all white, non-jew UMC men.  No dummies got let into to college with that system.[/b]  [/quote]

We have in the above quote excellent evidence that the US education system is indeed breaking down.

PP says 75 years ago no one would go to college except white UMC men. 75 years ago is "1946" when the GI bill was putting anyone who had been in uniform in the Second World War into a college classroom. 70 years ago my father went to the university and I doubt there was anyone poorer in his class. He was the child of immigrants, and grew up in a two room shack with six brothers and sisters.

But even before that, 80 and 90 years ago, all sorts of people the PP says couldn't go to college did. Jews like Milton Friedman, Barry Goldwater, Kenneth Arrow, and Paul Samuelson attended some of the best universities in America in the 1920s and 30s.

Judah Benjamin was a US Senator from Louisiana in the 1850s, and the Secretary of State of the Confederacy from 1862-1865. And he was also a Jew, and a lawyer, and he went to Yale in the 1820s.

By 1940 there has been six Jewish senators in US history, four of them were elected from the south, all were lawyers and all but one of those men had gone to college.

Did you know that in the US prior to 1946 many Blacks went to college, some even before the Civil War, and many afterwards? There were at least a dozen Black doctors in the Union Army during the Civil War, and at least one of those doctors was a graduate of Yale's medical school. Soon after the Civil War there were hundreds of Black lawyers working in the US, many in the south, along with Black doctors, professors, scientists, reverends, and teachers, and they all had two-year, four-year and graduate degrees. Have you heard of Katherine Johnson or George Washington Carver? Johnson was in graduate school in the 1930s and Carver was in graduate school in the 1890s. 
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