The One About The Lack Of Educational Opportunity For The Middle Class.

January 24, 2010 by Toriach

I love all my Progressive Brothers And Sisters. Truly I do. However the more I read, the more I come to understand exactly how deeply out of touch many of them are.

An article I found recently on In These Times website is a perfect example.

In it the author is discussing the death of Liberal Arts colleges and programs. When she makes this statement,

“By making a well-rounded education available only to the elite, we move one step closer to a society of two classes: one taught to think and rule and another groomed to follow and obey.”

I honestly don't know whether to laugh in her face, or to pat her well meaning head. At this point taking "one step" is irrelevant. It’s a bit like taking one step closer to the kitchen when I’m already standing in the middle of it. Or to put it another way? Well you've all heard the phrase, “Closing the barn door after the horse has left.”? Well this is like pulling the fire alarm after the barn has burnt to the ground and the horses have all been shot in the head.

The simple, and simply awful truth is that we have been at this divide for some time now.

You see the problem with attempting to get an education if one is poor or working class, is that once your education is done (assuming you are one of the lucky ones who are even able to finish) then you are usually left with a large amount of debt. Usually this leaves most people with a choice, pursue their dreams, hope they can find a decent paying job until they can find something in their field and take their chances…. Or give up on such silliness as dreams, figure out what field they can stomach that will pay them well, and get their education for that.

This means that for most working class and poor people they gave up on the idea of a traditional liberal arts education a long time ago.

The bigger danger is that now, given how hard it is to find jobs in even the more mundane fields, most of us in the ranks of the working classes and poor are being sent the message that there is really no point in getting an education any way. Better to find a job, any job, and stick with it for as long as they'll have you. And if you lose it you'd best get another one as quickly as you can. Give up your ridiculous notions and fantasies of improving your lot through education.

That is for your social betters.

Besides everyone knows that too much education makes one into a Commie Homo Child Molester.

Now I don't harbor any ill feelings towards the articles author. I'm sure she has nothing but the best of intentions. It is simply human nature, that we generally don’t notice a problem until it affects us, if not directly, then at least indirectly by affecting our immediate world.

The truth of the matter is that what is being done to the middle classes to discourage them from pursuing education has already been perfected by our Corporate Masters. They practiced it on minorities, and then they honed it on the working class of all races. Now they are going in for the coup de grace on the rapidly shrinking middle class.

But, hey ya know thanks for the warning and all. I mean better late than never I guess.

Keep The Faith My Brothers And Sisters!

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