Education has become a nearly universal requirement in
today’s world in order to make a decent income. However, certain levels of
education have become almost too easily achievable to the extent that too many
people have a certain degree without enough jobs for them to fill. History
shows a similar situation in the story of the Taiping Rebellion.
Over the years, the bachelor’s degree has become
democratized- too easy to receive. This makes the master’s degree almost mandatory
for a well-paying job, because so many people have bachelor’s degrees that
employees holding the few jobs available have the ability to pick higher-educated
applicants over less qualified ones. Our system of education has become less a
system of imparting knowledge and more a system of promoting stratification because
how the original universities of the Western World viewed education. Their
chief mission was not to produce learning but graduates instead, teaching always
being subordinate to the process of certification. Artisans made
apprenticeships last long in order to keep their numbers small and their
services high in cost. For those looking for a job income and social position
were required through affiliation with a cartel. People who wanted the jobs had
to pay before they made any money and many could not afford the process.
That old system is much the same as with student loans in
America. In the U.S., student debt is now over one trillion dollars today because
of the amount of money required to receive a decent education in order to get a
decent job with a decent salary. Even then, many adults cannot crawl out from
under the over-bearing weight of their student debt. For instance, if a student
must pay $20,000 a year for tuition and takes it all out in student loans that
makes a total of $80,000 over a four-year time span, and that is just for their
bachelor’s degrees. To receive their master’s degree, which many must possess
in today’s world for a high-end job, students will probably need approximately
four more years of education at a more expensive institution. That leaves the
student with about $200,000 in student loans to pay off, while starting a job
search.
Overall, the system of education has turned into a system
of stratification not one that imparts knowledge, leading many far into debt.
If this doesn’t change many will be left out of jobs and possibly houses and
food as a consequence.
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