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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I would rather that the workforce be educated and know how to think critically. Reduce the barriers to education, not the barriers to employment.  [/quote]

Given the scholarship coming out of higher education and the behavior of students and their activism in recent years, it's hard to see college teaching kids how to think critically but more an ideological factory.

As it is, most people really don't need nor benefit from a rarefied higher education. Real world is in many ways the best teacher there is. [/quote]

A certain subset of people have been trying to get this idea going for decades and yet the ROI on a college education continues to be very robust.  Despite what certain pundits try to claim, college is not an ideological factory--you really do learn to read widely, do research, consider diverse perspectives, develop a social network of people pursuing different fields--at a time of life where your brain is still rapidly growing. 
Experience is a great teacher, but honestly most jobs give you very little meaningful and varied experience.  It's very hard to grow on the job in many places--you just repeat routines that are often idiosyncratic to your place of work. Few people are motivated to pursue education without the structure of schooling.   I think forgoing college is recipe to getting stuck in fairly dead-end jobs for most people. [/quote]

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