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American Higher Education Information is Geared Toward Elitist Global Marketplace; Quality Education Aimed Only at Rich.

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American higher education information indicates that the US college system provides the highest level of education in the world.

This is indicated by the number of international students who come to America for college and post-graduate education.

Thomas Jefferson’s fervent hope was that higher education should nurture talent and virtue in all of America’s youth.

From 2005 to 2007, many international graduates have stayed in the US, finding more job opportunities.

Those that have remained in America have been pivotal in creating American jobs, by being involved in starting new business.

In 2009, over 80% of foreign students say they will return to their home country after graduation.

They believe that due to the declining American economy and the rising unemployment rate, there is a better future for them at home.

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Education Inequity

Jefferson wanted higher education to be available to all Americans. Colleges and universities, besides receiving endowments, are considered nonprofit, and save money because they pay no taxes.

This gives those institutions an implicit obligation to educate as many students as possible, for the least cost.

Even with financial aid and scholarships, the cost of higher education is unaffordable to most low and middle income American families.

Income limits on financial aid are too low, leaving too much out-of-pocket cost for all but the wealthy – who do not need financial aid or scholarships.

American higher education information comes with a high tuition price tag due to competition and to their knowledge that the wealthy view price as an indication of quality.

Consequently, colleges are educating the best and brightest of the elite, and ignoring brilliance that is unfortunate enough to have been born without the proverbial silver spoon.

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The Elite Won’t Compete

If financial aid was easier to obtain, it would increase competition for acceptance into more prestigious universities.

Old money wants a quality education for their C student, and has always been able to guarantee it by donating a building to the university.

The wealthy parents of that C student, and their peers, would never allow their progeny to be denied college because low-income, straight A students.

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Corporate Influence

As jobs go overseas, corporations, concerned that our schools will not spew stiff competition for global graduates, want American schools to produce human resources.

With the speed and connectivity afforded by technology, there is fierce global competition for jobs and capital. It has also become difficult for governments to regulate business and markets.

To control American higher education information, corporate leaders learn from the American industrial revolution the methods to make companies wealthy and powerful.

This has put a rigid bureaucracy into our school system.

Students receive a no-frills education, eliminating the arts in favor of creating corporate drones.

There heads are filled with propaganda that discourages free thinking, creativity and debate.

These principles are easily swallowed, since the brainwashing began in grade school.

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Who Wins?

Jefferson wanted to nurture talent and virtue in America’s children.

The business community is brainwashing our youth to have traits employers predict workers will need.

When did going to college become merely a way to improve the bottom line – and what will America become if this continues?

”Education is a weapon, whose effect depends on who holds it in his hands and at whom it is aimed.”

– Joseph Stalin’

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