#Reagan Adviser Warned Free #College Would Create a Dangerous “Educated Proletariat”
...#RogerFreeman, who also worked for #Nixon, revealed the right’s motivation for coming decades of attacks on higher education."
(3/n)
"...general system of Education cannot be too much applauded. … Enlightened patriotism … is now providing for the State a Plan of #Education embracing every class of Citizens.”
“Knowledge will forever govern ignorance,” #JamesMadison explained..."
(4/n) #RonaldReagan's and the #GOP's reasons were not benevolent, to say the least:
"A core theme of Reagan’s first gubernatorial campaign in 1966 was resentment toward #California’s public colleges, in particular UC #Berkeley, with Reagan repeatedly vowing “to clean up the mess” there. Berkeley, then nearly free to..."
(5/n)
"...attend for #California residents, had become a national center of organizing against the #VietnamWar. Deep anxiety about this reached the highest levels of the U.S. government. #JohnMcCone, the head of the #CIA, requested a meeting with J. #EdgarHoover, head of the #FBI,..."
(8/n)
...grow as quickly anymore. And, on average, children would, on average, be much worse off than their parents if they went to #college and had to take out #StudentLoans.
(10/n)
...Considering that it was #Reagans strategic intent to crack down on, even reduce the number of well-educated citizens, he could even be called a traitor to the people and to the country as well.
Even not considering the lost wealth creation of these generations since he rose to power, which...
(11/16)
...must be gargantuan, the hundreds of thousands high-school #graduates that did not go to #college due to these prohibitive tuition costs, have cost the #US#economy dearly in know-how not obtained and lost taxes on higher incomes never earned.
#Reagan's college-education master plan within the #Reagonomics framework is still working.
As of May, 2023:
"Some 2.5 million fewer #Americans are enrolled in college than in 2011, and 👉the decline is accelerating.👈 The college-going rate of 👉high school graduates has dropped from 70 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2022,👈 and if this trend continues, a group of young Americans will — for the first time in our history — enter..."
This is even more disastrous in a work environment in which even mass displacements of #KnowledgeWorkers by #AI technology are expected in the decade to come.
The #GOP is destroying the #AmericanDream for ever more people by dismantling #FDR's policies that created the backbone of modern #US society, the middle class.
s/:"I love the poorly educated," oh, yes, so much for so many reasons! The most...
"...economic #competitiveness as we experience a widespread devaluing of #education and the erosion of the educational advantage that we’ve held in global affairs for the past 70 years. 👉This is the most serious long-term national security challenge facing our country.👈...
👉Much of the battlefield technology👈 the #UnitedStates depended on in #Iraq, #Afghanistan and elsewhere over the past two..."
"...decades was the 👉product of foundational #research at #American#universities as well as the knowledge workers these universities produced👈...
The #US' "...advantage is fading.
At the turn of the 21st century, we ranked fifth among Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development [#OECD] nations in educational attainment; by 2021, we were 12th."
@HistoPol In the UK apprenticeships looking more advantageous not just for technical workers. In the UK poorer earners after Uni will pay more than richer ones in loan paybacks
I'm not quite sure if I'm getting all of your points correctly, @JohnLoader6.
Are you saying that in comparison to the #US, an #apprenticeship in the #UK offers much better job opportunities? (as in #Germany, a "master electrician" might even make more money than college graduates and often has his/her own company. What's more, they can now also get higher-education grants for a master craftsman certificate AND...
@HistoPol increasingly and I have a 5 year experiment under way. Eldest grandson wants to go to Uni. His slightly younger cousin will start as an apprentice plumber. Whilst government stupidly says we can have apprentice doctors (nurses too but they used to become nurses that way) other organisations including civil service offer apprenticeships. But getting a job is the best way to get the next job and work your way up.
...get a master's degree on top of that, I they like.)
Are you saying that college graduates 🎓 in the #UK, like in the #US, have a higher level of indebtedness if they didn’t come from a well-to-do family background?
@HistoPol oddly under new loan repayment rules someone who gets a high paid job will be able to pay off their student loan quickly. Someone, say a nurse or polic officer, on lower pay would take more years to pay off and hence pay far more interest. If you get to 100 you get a card from the king and one telling you you’ve paid off your student loan
ah, I see. It is a problem intrinsic to interest-bearing loans then, that you are addressing.
I am not familiar with the #UK, but in the #US, due to exploding college fees and stagnant real incomes over the last decades, the same is true for college graduates.
I know that #nurses in #Anglosaxon countries are often not going through #apprenticeships but have a college degree. I also know they are allowed to do more of a "doctor's job" IDK about relative pay...
...(Dr. vs. nurse UK (%) in comparison to other countries.)
Regarding #apprenticeships in the UK, IDK about income. In many countries, you get paid by the employer (though less than a full-time employee) and don't have to pay tuition fees.
How about the #UK?
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"...attend for #California residents, had become a national center of organizing against the #VietnamWar. Deep anxiety about this reached the highest levels of the U.S. government. #JohnMcCone, the head of the #CIA, requested a meeting with J. #EdgarHoover, head of the #FBI,..."
@HistoPol Reagan (GOP) lit the match that started the US into a slow decline in many ways not only the financial security of people were affected but also social stability. The War on Drugs was a race war against Blacks.
Nixon was corrupt but
Reagan was much worse.
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