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[–] Heresyoursign 0 points 2 points (+2|-0) ago 

The issue is that historically there were two forms of higher education: job training and upper class elite social education. In the 50 and 60s they started to merge. People were going to college more for job training and a little bit of the well-rounded extra education. Now days, it really neither. The upper class elite education which was to provoke thought and discussion has been reduced to route memorization and regurgitation, yet this is being presented as job training, or at the very least somehow relevant to later careers. With a few exceptions, such as engineering and medicine, this is certainly not the case. Yet, because we as a society believe that is is this combination of upper class, mind expanding education for the global citizen and job training, we constantly push the narrative that everyone needs to go to college for something or anything. People buy into this so much that states will pay for citizens to go to college with taxpayer money, making it easier for the lower class to get a degree. With rates higher than ever, it is the middle class that is being shut out of our new service oriented economy.