Educating for the Status Quo

[Jackpine Radical]

7. I think it has a lot to do with education, actually.

In the sense of breaking it.

The purpose of education for the most part is to create organic robots for the Corporate State. That just doesn't require much beyond the basics of reading and calculation for most people. "Higher education" has become a system of glorified trade schools and government-funded R&D labs for the corporations, with the exception of a few prestigious campuses where only the privileged few are allowed to et foot. (Well, actually the privileged few and a smattering of carefully chosen, compliant minority admissions & other "scholarship students" from the blue-collar world for window dressing).