06-16-2020, 01:21 PM
(06-16-2020, 01:13 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:(06-16-2020, 10:44 AM)David Horn Wrote: High degrees of education and wealth attainment are neither mutually exclusive nor inclusive. Yes, some degrees tend to track with high earning, but others don't. The purpose of an education should be enlightenment, but most of us see the education-earning link instead.
Four years of one's life and putting one's self in considerable debt is a high price to pay for a degree these days. If it doesn't come with a good shot at employment, this seems like a luxury few can afford.
Sad but true. I'm not sure we'll ever return to education-as-enlightenment, but we do need to encourage (force?) a bit of old fashioned civics and language education on the general public, or we'll become a nation of Know-Nothings. Never mind. We already are.
Intelligence is not knowledge and knowledge is not wisdom, but they all play well together.
