Why Get a Liberal Education?

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9. We're fighting people who dont see a need for public education any more. Seriously.

Ive had private conversations with people who tell me that its time to get rid of public education. We need to disconnect education from jobs because as jobs go away the financial argument for college will get weaker, as more and more people fail to get a job after four or six or even eight years of college. Employment will become the exception rather than the norm by mid century.

Frankly, we need a national discussion on the jobless future that asks the important questions like what kind of future do we want in a world where the bar to employment is so high that most people never attain that level of skill in their lifetimes.

Do we want a society that pushes the vast majority of us out? I think we should start seeing education as its own reward.

Corruption will just get worse and worse and one possibility is that people will just become disgusted with the evils caused by money.