It's not like people are forced to take student loans.

[nadinbrzezinski]

93. I guess we should not indulge our curiosity

For medicine, nursing, engineering and a few other important careers either.

Look, we get it, from above, you object to education, period.

You are part of the great American anti intellectual tradition, as old as at least the 1740s and distrust of book learning, alas developed economies need these books and experts to remain competitive in the world stage. Either we get them trained at home, or will have to import them...hey, I don't mind the US getting a dose of cultural imperialism and brain flight, by all means...and this is not economics, but policy...( pesky darn book learning'). Don't get me wrong, macro-economics, dang here I go again with that fancy book learning, has a bit to do with that pesky policy and what people at the highest levels of government decide to do with resources.

Alas, our policy says guns and defense...I guess we will outsource technical branches of the armed forces in a generation or two as well... Yup, that's the ticket.

Now, 'gain dang book learnin' you are thinking micro economics, and that effect you see, which you blame people for making lifestyle choices, is a late effect of macro economic policy decisions. See California, going from top in the education food chain to 48...and that, partly, is the self interest of citizens who cannot connect those taxes and investment in education with...taxes.

That my friend is partly that great anti intellectual tradition you're proudly part off.