| > And why should someone without a degree be excluded from socio-economic advancement, thinking for themselves, or challenging the established order? If anything, professional success based on work instead of degrees is a challenge to the current established order. :) They aren't excluded; education empowers people to do it much more. Professional success is almost always within the established order and supports it; I'm not sure what you mean there. > The American Dream doesn't need to be degree examiners gatekeeping it. If you care about socioeconomic advancement, don't pull the ladder up by excluding people without degrees: I'm not pulling up the ladder, I'm lowering it and broadening it into a grand, wide staircase. I'm not suggesting people be excluded from jobs (I don't know where you got that), but that they have the opportunity to do more. > And to the "authoritarian-reactionaries" dig: note that the Congresswoman in this article is pursuing this as a progressive. Same with the new governor of Pennsylvania: Right. It's not a dig; it's a serious issue. I said that the authoritarian-reactionaries have convinced others, and that includes the member of congress and the governor. Are they expanding access to college education? I'll bet the children of both politicians are going to college. > child of an immigrant with an 8th grade education for whom the American Dream is alive and well The Dream isn't alive and well if you want a college education. |