We have all heard the mantra that if we want to be successful we need education – the more the better. Well folks, that is not quite true; just ask the waiter in the next restaurant you go to. We now have a population of over-educated, frustrated, in debt young people. They paid for an education that is not providing the employment they anticipated. In fact that employment is not even available, because there are too many people trained for ‘this or that’ profession. And even those who did get employed are working for lower wages, because of the effect of the ‘law of supply and demand’ around the numbers of over educated wannabes. Our young people are getting screwed. They cannot even get jobs in the trades, even though we are constantly told there are not enough tradespeople. What’s going on?
The truth is that education has become big business and is fully supported by government because it temporarily keeps the unemployment statistics down. Colleges and Universities are offering hundreds of seats for courses leading to jobs they know do not exist. They also know that almost half of their students will not complete the programs they have paid for, but the administrators do not have the ethics to make that fact commonly known. Why? Because they want the money to fund their elaborate facilities and overpaid professors and themselves. Those guys are living off the system without conscience, it is status and ego that drives them more than anything else. I guess you can’t totally blame them after spending years and years getting a degree in something that the only thing you can do is talk ‘no end’ about, and not much else.
The only thing that nobody seems to realize, or want to talk about, is that we are developing a society of disgruntled citizens who are fearful of the future and have little faith in anything, including their futures. Do we, you and me, our governments and business leaders think this is a good thing? Why is nothing being done about it? Do we all think this makes for a healthy world? Okay educators, if you really care, let’s wake up and say/do something about it !