Thursday, June 3, 2010  WORD: Higher Ed's Big Lie  Government
employment of the unemployed is one...Image via Wikipedia  This
is the most important unrecognized development out there -- that
in an era where resource limits are the constraints (rather than
human capital), increasing the amount of education that the idle
cannot apply simply diverts resources from productive use to
helping people mark time before being unemployed or
underemployed. Helping to strap those people to huge amounts of
debt at the same time is not just immoral but also exceedingly
unwise.  We're starting to experience the national equivalent of
PTSD as young people experience the Higher Ed myth unraveling in
their own lives. Supposedly educated, they know that they lack
any meaningful skills that anyone needs. They cannot make or
maintain any of the goods that they use every day, nearly all of
them do not have the slightest idea about how to grow or prepare
the food they consume, the clothes they wear, or the shelter
they inhabit; yet