Fed Chair Tells Congress to Blame the Education System

See https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2020/02/15/powell-labor-force/ where I gave an explanation.

he problem with the educational system isn’t easy to see – unless you are on the inside. Then it is clear. Our system of higher education has become corrupted and that is what has disrupted the whole system. I’ll explain further down, but first, here is Bill Gross,

“…Universities are run for the benefit of the adult establishment, both politically and financially, not students. To radically change the system…would be to jeopardize trillions of misdirected investment dollars and financial obligations…”

The system was already corrupted by 1980. Here is David Riesman from his 1980 book On Higher Education: The Academic Enterprise in an Era of Rising Student Consumerism,

“…advantage can still be taken of [students] by unscrupulous instructors and institutions…Like any other interest group, the student estate often does not grasp its own interests, and those who speak in its name are not always its friends…”

I said that this corruption of higher education effects all American education. Here is how.

● It starts with poor undergraduate education for all but a very small group of students. In addition, and importantly, a large group of essentially fraudulent PhD’s are awarded. (No, I don’t mean “substandard” or, not up to “my standards”. I really do mean “fraudulent”.}

● Many of the recipients become “professors” at schools where large numbers of Americans go for an “education”. These “professors” are not able to teach well, since they don’t know the material well.

● The schools where these professors “teach” are, in the main, the very same schools that our society counts on to educate our k-12 teachers – the people upon which our whole educational system rests.

● These teachers, wash up on the shores of our society because of poor K-12 (especially high school) education. There they sweep away what used to be a fundamental part of our society: a basic education for all.

References and much more can be found on my blog inside-higher-ed .