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Bluelighter
The Purpose and Reality of Higher Education
The most essential idea that a university endows its graduates with is the concept of insight, a true understanding into one’s surroundings. Insight is taught by providing students with an understanding of human behavior through teaching philosophical, social, economic and political histories with a core curriculum divided between language and mathematics. These supply the basis of an “enlightened man”, whom contributes all he can in the interest of others. The accomplishment of this education provides man with the knowledge, logic and wisdom to determine most ethical, efficient and mutually beneficial solutions to most any problem of interest, the ability to objectively discuss it with his peers and the benefit of improving each other’s concepts for the betterment of society.
This program should be accessible to anyone willing and capable to enter the university while not overburdening those who do not wish to participate by means of levies and taxes. (Some people would be much more content to labor their lives away manually or pursue a more practical knowledge rather than continue with higher education.) This is a difficult problem since by “accessible”, I mean to require that economic, class and theological obstacles be overcome by students through government legislation, but I will just test the water here.
Overburdening should be alleviated by having the “true” beneficiaries, employers and government in a capitalist system and/or “the people” in democratic and communist systems, foot the bill. Specifically, in our capitalist system if we were to force business and government to pay for a student’s education it would allow both to become more efficient by supplying each with a better educated, larger pool of prospective employees yet would lower their potential gains by allowing for more competition. This change is not occurring because our class structure, society and government are based on a theology of wealth and greed, and damned if they are going to let the rest of us ignorant consumers (the middle and lower classes) play their games of Russian Roulette with our financial futures.
The University’s other main purpose is to overcome the ignorance of society as a whole by permeating it with informed students and graduates. The philosophical and political histories as well as some ethnic theory provide the stepping-stone for the reduction of ignorance in contemporary America while likewise providing the student with a basis for future theoretical solutions to assist our laborers. This has been a major problem with older generations and their theories of government since their education consisted mainly of segregational and capitalist ideals that were inherently conveyed to their peers and children thence hindering social progression and development by eliminating the desire to share resources.
This ignorance of some of the uneducated and previously educated has allowed such horrid and frightening ideas as fascism, state executions, genocide and war mongering for “peace” to become accepted and flourish in different localities in the last century and present day. The philosophical and ethical approach of a modern college education should work to rectify these and future wrong doings while allowing discussion and discourse on “bad ideas” in order to promote the concept of mutualism between the various ethnic and economic classes as well as between nations.
This causes economics to be a necessary concept to supply students with since it is pertinent to the advancement of society and the learned man because it allows those who grasp its concept to see through simple and arcane notions used to manipulate the general populace. For example, market interference by our government to save national job markets. (i.e. During the 1980’s, Regan and congress set a quota on Japanese auto imports to save some American auto-industry jobs which in turn raised the cost of American automobiles and saved automobile manufacturing jobs at a cost of approximately $240,000 to taxpayers per job saved, more than six times the average salary of employees. And with respect to the 1970’s gas crisis, prices were capped eliminating incentives for alternative energy research as well as consumer conservation causing long lines at the pump. After price caps were lifted, lines for gasoline disappeared and the price dropped as the market returned to its normal fluctuations.) Problems such as this occur because of an inherent lack of understanding by the population as to what their elected officials and corporate media are conveying to them. This is why we should educate anyone who wishes to attain a greater level of understanding about our world.
While modern universities due an decent job of providing most coherent, informed graduates with some of the qualities described above, they are not accessible to everyone either due to either economic, educational (primary) or social repression by the governing class and big business. We are caught in our own societal “Catch-22”. We cannot eliminate repression without educating the masses, by providing them the means to truly comprehend their world at no monetary cost to them, yet this education would overthrow the wealthy, ruling, political class, by creating competition for them. Since they have the means to remain in power, by forcing up the price of education and by having most of the resources, which they currently do, they will continue to repress until they finally destroy our democratic system and its liberties. Higher education is the key to a harmonious society of equals, which can progress and adapt to the changing circumstances of tomorrow’s world.
-The Doc
just some ideals that I feel are unerexpressed in Amerika today..........
The most essential idea that a university endows its graduates with is the concept of insight, a true understanding into one’s surroundings. Insight is taught by providing students with an understanding of human behavior through teaching philosophical, social, economic and political histories with a core curriculum divided between language and mathematics. These supply the basis of an “enlightened man”, whom contributes all he can in the interest of others. The accomplishment of this education provides man with the knowledge, logic and wisdom to determine most ethical, efficient and mutually beneficial solutions to most any problem of interest, the ability to objectively discuss it with his peers and the benefit of improving each other’s concepts for the betterment of society.
This program should be accessible to anyone willing and capable to enter the university while not overburdening those who do not wish to participate by means of levies and taxes. (Some people would be much more content to labor their lives away manually or pursue a more practical knowledge rather than continue with higher education.) This is a difficult problem since by “accessible”, I mean to require that economic, class and theological obstacles be overcome by students through government legislation, but I will just test the water here.
Overburdening should be alleviated by having the “true” beneficiaries, employers and government in a capitalist system and/or “the people” in democratic and communist systems, foot the bill. Specifically, in our capitalist system if we were to force business and government to pay for a student’s education it would allow both to become more efficient by supplying each with a better educated, larger pool of prospective employees yet would lower their potential gains by allowing for more competition. This change is not occurring because our class structure, society and government are based on a theology of wealth and greed, and damned if they are going to let the rest of us ignorant consumers (the middle and lower classes) play their games of Russian Roulette with our financial futures.
The University’s other main purpose is to overcome the ignorance of society as a whole by permeating it with informed students and graduates. The philosophical and political histories as well as some ethnic theory provide the stepping-stone for the reduction of ignorance in contemporary America while likewise providing the student with a basis for future theoretical solutions to assist our laborers. This has been a major problem with older generations and their theories of government since their education consisted mainly of segregational and capitalist ideals that were inherently conveyed to their peers and children thence hindering social progression and development by eliminating the desire to share resources.
This ignorance of some of the uneducated and previously educated has allowed such horrid and frightening ideas as fascism, state executions, genocide and war mongering for “peace” to become accepted and flourish in different localities in the last century and present day. The philosophical and ethical approach of a modern college education should work to rectify these and future wrong doings while allowing discussion and discourse on “bad ideas” in order to promote the concept of mutualism between the various ethnic and economic classes as well as between nations.
This causes economics to be a necessary concept to supply students with since it is pertinent to the advancement of society and the learned man because it allows those who grasp its concept to see through simple and arcane notions used to manipulate the general populace. For example, market interference by our government to save national job markets. (i.e. During the 1980’s, Regan and congress set a quota on Japanese auto imports to save some American auto-industry jobs which in turn raised the cost of American automobiles and saved automobile manufacturing jobs at a cost of approximately $240,000 to taxpayers per job saved, more than six times the average salary of employees. And with respect to the 1970’s gas crisis, prices were capped eliminating incentives for alternative energy research as well as consumer conservation causing long lines at the pump. After price caps were lifted, lines for gasoline disappeared and the price dropped as the market returned to its normal fluctuations.) Problems such as this occur because of an inherent lack of understanding by the population as to what their elected officials and corporate media are conveying to them. This is why we should educate anyone who wishes to attain a greater level of understanding about our world.
While modern universities due an decent job of providing most coherent, informed graduates with some of the qualities described above, they are not accessible to everyone either due to either economic, educational (primary) or social repression by the governing class and big business. We are caught in our own societal “Catch-22”. We cannot eliminate repression without educating the masses, by providing them the means to truly comprehend their world at no monetary cost to them, yet this education would overthrow the wealthy, ruling, political class, by creating competition for them. Since they have the means to remain in power, by forcing up the price of education and by having most of the resources, which they currently do, they will continue to repress until they finally destroy our democratic system and its liberties. Higher education is the key to a harmonious society of equals, which can progress and adapt to the changing circumstances of tomorrow’s world.
-The Doc
just some ideals that I feel are unerexpressed in Amerika today..........
