Schooling, and Education....not even similar.

I heard something on the radio that, and I am not kidding, caused me to pull over to the side of the road and say a prayer for our nation.  And before I move forward, I want to state a position here…..there is a vast difference, A VAST DIFFERENCE between having an education, and being educated.

So, with that in mind.  This woman calls in to the radio station, and goes ALL IN for socialism (making it clear that she was a “democratic socialist”, not just the kind of socialist that has failed world wide) when it comes to paying college expenses for those in college, and paying off the debt for those who have graduated.

And yes, she was a feminist studies major.  She is NOT going to get a job that is going to pay SHIT.  She has a “major” in a field that NOBODY gives a shit about.  My guess is that she knows that she is incompetent, can not function in a real world.

When I was 30, I had a BA in history education, because I wanted to teach high school history.  I had an MS in political science because I wanted to work in the US embassy in Bonn.  My father in law asked me what I wanted for my birthday and I said I wanted something on the history of the Church.  For my birthday I got the six volume “Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire” by Edward Gibbon.  I took me an entire year to read that masterpiece, and it inspired me to read EVERYTHING I could get my hands onto. It inspired me to go to the classic spots in the world (Rome, Trier, Berlin, Paris, Buda Pest, Prague,  and a host of place names that most people cannot even pronounce).  My point to this is the acknowledgement that my EDUCATION did not start until after I left the hallowed halls of higher education.  And I paid the money for my degrees.  Nobody else, certainly not the taxpayer, paid for anything.

In making her argument that we the people should be responsible for paying for college, she (the caller) NEGATED her own argument.  Why should I, you, or anyone pay for school for ANYONE that does not contribute to her “education”.  Her position was that BECAUSE she went to college, she was therefore educated, and therefore an asset to society, because everything she got from college was a benefit to society.

And we should all realize that the is wrong.

But by God…..she has an education…..and is completely uneducated.

I have an HVAC guy who I KNOW didn’t go to college, I have a plumber, who plumbs magnificently, but I know he went to trade school and it didn’t cost me crap (he cost me plenty now).  The callers’ contention that she is of value to society and that therefore her degree should be paid for by taxpayers, simply because she went to college, is ludicrous; it implies that the is educated because she went to school……and that notion is ridiculous.

Now…..all of this said…I am fully cognizant that my time in college makes me of ZERO value to anyone, or society; if I AM of value, that value has nothing to do with an institutional process. IF the government deems that we as a nation need DNA scientists, then we as a nation, should pay…..but we should never pay for your choices.  Great, you went to college to understand under water basket weaving…..I do not give a shit and am definitely not willing to pay for it.

I understand that I was all over the place in this rant……but I feel strongly, if somewhat disorganized, on this issue.  This is America….I STRONGLY believe that if you want to go to school to be a blight on society…..then you should do it…and I disagree that I should pay for it.

One last thing…..what we know as the Guaranteed Student Loan program was started by a democrat President and re-organized by a later democrat President.  The system is corrupt and allows colleges, that provide no value, to charge out of the ying-yang for PE class.  As usual the democrats developed a system that works against the nation, and their solution for their own incompetence, is to make it worse on all of us.  As you dwell on this, on this idea that we OWE college students for their value, and the move to make the government pay for it with our own money......just wait until the government provides the same philosophy to paying off mortgages.

That is all.