Higher Learning

Higher learning costs are outrageous by any rational standard. Believing the purpose of college is to produce workers for industry is an archaic ideology, and one that will hopefully die with the Greatest and Baby Boomer Generation­s. Colleges have become factories, spitting out uneducated children - leaving them with crippling debt and no problem solving skills. Boomers made college a necessity for their children, pushing them through this processing system, but they failed to create enough opportunit­ies for their kids in the last 20 years. They didn't adapt to globalizat­ion, nor the technologi­cal boom. And, now that they destroyed the economy through negligence and indifferen­ce, I hear them blame their kids for not taking the right courses. It's enough to make a sane person sick to their stomach...

State Of Young America: Indebted And Dubious Of Attaining American Dream by Amanda M. Fairbanks