Sunday's Doonesbury- Day Laborers

[JDPriestly]

65. Education is about becoming the best and most well informed person you can be.

Education is about understanding the world and being able to contribute to understanding in the world.

Learning skills you can use to get a job is important too.

I quote from your post;

Education is not worth much if there is no demand for the educated individual.

Requiring students to run up a lot of debt to get an education turns education into a commodity, something to be sold and then for the student to use to resell to an employer or a customer for profit or a salary.

That is not what education should be about.

I know lots of very well educated people who prefer to work as skilled tradesmen. But their education helps them to be better citizens of their communities and the world.

That is why a college education today should be free at state colleges and universities for those who want it -- as should be training in trades.

Education is not really a commodity. Education improves understanding.

And we need so much more understanding in our society.

Not all educated people have degrees. Many people are self-educated. It's what they know and their lifelong learning that makes them educated.

So I think that education has a much broader value and definition than we sometimes realize.

I understand what you are saying in your post, but I would define what you are talking about as career development. That is only sometimes the same as education.