‘There Are Two Americas Now: One With a B.A. and One Without’

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Case and Deaton contend that the ballots cast for Donald Trump by members of the white working class “are surely not for a president who will dismantle safety nets but against a Democratic Party that represents an alliance between minorities — whom working-class whites see as displacing them and challenging their once solid if unperceived privilege — and an educated elite that has benefited from globalization and from a soaring stock market, which was fueled by the rising profitability of those same firms that were increasingly denying jobs to the working class.”

Education divides everything, including connection to the labor market, marriage, connection to institutions (like organized religion), physical and mental health, and mortality. It does so for whites, Blacks and Hispanics. There has been a profound (not yet complete) convergence in life expectancy by education. There are two Americas now: one with a B.A. and one without.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/opinion/mortality-penalty-inequality-education.html
 
There are those who allowed their minds to be molded/wrecked at the failed universities, and those who did not.
 
University enrollments have begun their inevitable collapse as people catch on to how little education takes place there now.
 
BidenPresident said:
Case and Deaton contend that the ballots cast for Donald Trump by members of the white working class “are surely not for a president who will dismantle safety nets but against a Democratic Party that represents an alliance between minorities — whom working-class whites see as displacing them and challenging their once solid if unperceived privilege — and an educated elite that has benefited from globalization and from a soaring stock market, which was fueled by the rising profitability of those same firms that were increasingly denying jobs to the working class.”

Education divides everything, including connection to the labor market, marriage, connection to institutions (like organized religion), physical and mental health, and mortality. It does so for whites, Blacks and Hispanics. There has been a profound (not yet complete) convergence in life expectancy by education. There are two Americas now: one with a B.A. and one without.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/opinion/mortality-penalty-inequality-education.html
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I have a B.S. and a D.D.S.
Irrelevant.
 
The liberal arts colleges are getting crushed first.....they have nothing to offer.....they are political enterprises now.
 
In my circle it has been often asked in recent years if Universities can be saved and put back on mission.

The conclusion by those who think a lot about this is generally "No, not until America gets much further into this collapse".
 
Alan Bloom was deeply pessimistic already by 1987....read "The Closing of the American Mind".

Almost everything he was worried about happened, and now we are so very fucked.
 
BTW: I did not know till recently that Bloom was an advisor to Camille Paglia, a person I listen carefully to. She has dropped off the radar as she works on her passion project, about the artifacts of the local indians if I am not mistaken.
 
Hawkeye10 said:
Alan Bloom was deeply pessimistic already by 1987....read "The Closing of the American Mind".

Almost everything he was worried about happened, and now we are so very fucked.
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Look how the likes of Rana and Salty go after Jordan Peterson, truly hilarious and profoundly sad as well.
 
When education is for sale you can expect division. That's because division is the aim of commercialized education.

On the other hand, there are many routes to free education. The US, for example, leads the world in free language tuition via ' Duolingo ', a tuition platform which believes that free language tuition will change the world for the better.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duolingo
 
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BidenPresident said:
Case and Deaton contend that the ballots cast for Donald Trump by members of the white working class “are surely not for a president who will dismantle safety nets but against a Democratic Party that represents an alliance between minorities — whom working-class whites see as displacing them and challenging their once solid if unperceived privilege — and an educated elite that has benefited from globalization and from a soaring stock market, which was fueled by the rising profitability of those same firms that were increasingly denying jobs to the working class.”

Education divides everything, including connection to the labor market, marriage, connection to institutions (like organized religion), physical and mental health, and mortality. It does so for whites, Blacks and Hispanics. There has been a profound (not yet complete) convergence in life expectancy by education. There are two Americas now: one with a B.A. and one without.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/10/05/opinion/mortality-penalty-inequality-education.html
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Can't read the link because I won't subscribe to the NYT: the center of white liberalism. Very telling that you are subscribed to it.

Regarding the BA. Among those who contribute to societies wealth and protection of it, the BA is seen as a bullshit degree. Here's a typical listing:

Anthropology
Art History
Business
Communications
Criminal Justice
Education
English
General Studies
Geography
Graphic Design
History
Human Services
Information Technology
Liberal Arts
Music Production
Philosophy
Political Science
Psychology
Religious Studies
Sociology

Of the few that contribute to societal wealth or the protection thereof, most have BS alternatives where a student is likely to have far more success.
 
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