'College Conspiracy' is a documentary which questions the large dollar investments of a College education. Often there is a resulting one hundred to two hundred and fifty thousand dollar college debt incurred. Debt that hangs, with compiling interest, for decades, or even for life. The movie is at the video page at: http://inflation.us/videos.html There is a bit of a soft sell to encourage buying 'gold and silver' precious metals... to overcome hyper-inflation that is projected to occur in the next year and half, but other than that the documentary has some outstanding points to consider before choosing the path of a College education.
An American friend recently wrote to me, after watching the clip: Dear Bill: I have a lot to say about the issue of a college education. My youngest son who is now 42, is a chemical engineer and does very well in that field of occupation. When he went to college, I paid for everything so that when he got out of school, he had zero debt. Interestingly, he tells me that everything he "learned" in college has been of NO USE in the real world. He is very successful not because he went to college, but because of his personal motivations, integrity, common sense, wisdom and, of course, because he got hired on right out of college, and then moved up and up and up in his career field. He made wise choices and they have paid off.
I also have a younger daughter, now 26 who just went to the local community college and received an associates degree as a registered nurse. She has been hired at the local hospital and she also has no debts from her schooling.
I have a grandson who has entered a "for profit" college in Florida, in a the field of computer programming and gaming. It is very expensive and I suspect that he will exit this school with a huge debt. I only hope this schooling pays off for him by helping him fulfill his hearts desire, which is in the computer gaming field.
My son-in-law went to college and received a "general" education degree, which has seemingly been of little value to him in earning a living.
Personally, I never went to college, other than to take a few isolated courses, but never as a full time student. Over the course of my life and without a college education, I worked for a college in Pasadena, California for approximately twelve years. During that employment I was an IBM Computer programmer/operator at that college, and was eventually appointed as the Payroll Manager for their multimillion dollar payroll.
Later in life, I was the founder, along with a business partner, of Hydraulic Specialists, Inc. where we did hydraulic repair work for the coal mining industry, the oil drilling industry, the lumber/wood industry, the sanitation industry, factories, and virtually any type of business that had hydraulics. I sold out after twelve years and went into another business alone. I started my own automotive core business, which had to do with buying used parts from salvage yards, repair garages, auto dealerships and so forth, and selling those parts to builders or large sources that dealt directly with the builders. I also started a family consignment business with my wife and two sons, which is still in operation after many years, and is profitable also.
Personally I have found great satisfaction as an entrepreneur and have provided for my family adequately all these years, while having total freedom as a self-employed individual and without a "college education."
In the world we live in, many businesses want to hire people with a "degree", but I know from living life that just because a piece of paper that states an individual has a "college education", is no guarantee of financial success in life.
From my perspective, much of the college system is purely a business enterprise and it fuels income for the administrators, teachers and others employed in that business.
Like everything in life, it seems MONEY is the most important thing on earth that makes the world go around. I am a proponent of home schooling and, in fact, home schooled my two daughters in high school. They never attended public schools and when we got sick and tired of private church schools, we decided that home schooling was the only option for us personally. As I stated before, my youngest daughter has gone on to acquire a degree as a registered nurse, and she has private goals in that field of endeavor. My older daughter has four beautiful children, and a wonderful husband and is very happy as a home maker. She is also a professional cake maker.
You might be interested in the writings of Charlotte Thompson Iserbyt, former Senior Policy Advisor in the Department of Education of the U.S.. She penned the book "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America."
Bill, I have found that everything in life is a battleground. It seems weird that you have people who seem to make decisions about life, and that impact all others, and yet so often those decisions are detrimental to society and human beings. It is as if there is an intentional goal to destroy human beings, through economics, wars, "education" (mind programming), vaccines, chemicals in our food and water, just to name a few.
Perhaps part of the issue is simply human greed, insecurity and thinking that the status quo is the only option.
I have long believed that all industrial nations are sitting ducks for mass famine and starvation. When human beings depend upon grocery stores for their food, it is a "potential" lethal disaster. In history there have been intentional famines of millions of human beings, such as in the Ukraine. When most of the world's food supply is owned and controlled by a handful of giant corporations, it is a ticking time bomb. When food is used as a tool for political motives, things become quite serious.
There are many more things to be said about the college and public school system. For one, in the Communist Manifesto, one of the TEN PLANKS is "free" public school "education." Another one of the ten planks is the central bank system...where private bankers are not allowed control of a nation's monetary system. It is doubtful that any school today teaches anything about the Communist Manifesto. Not that either you or I are communists, but let's not diss specific ideas that make sense.
In reality and in my thinking, what we all have to evaluate is "what is the purpose of life?" How much better would young children be, if instead of going to public or private schools, they could ride horses, learn to grow food, build barns, climb mountains, go fishing, do constructive things that are real life, instead of wasting their lives away in "prisons" for children called "school."
Most any parent can teach their young children to read, do basic math, learn some science and history, teach them to write, and do a far superior job than any public school. Higher math and engineering, is another issue. Why not math schools and engineering schools, and forget all the extra crap they insist that you take, which everyone hates, but which is required? What for? Money, money, money for the system, and for the jobs of the school administrators and teachers.
