Most college and university graduates of the last generation or
more are essentially uneducated in the nature and values of modern Western
Civilization and its leading offshoot the capitalist economic system.
The courses that should have given them this education, namely, the
courses in the liberal arts and humanities, did not, despite the fact that in many
cases the students not only paid for this education but incurred substantial
debt in order to do so.
These students deserve a refund. In the case of private colleges
and universities they should be paid to the extent possible out of the endowments
of the schools they attended, which in some cases amount to tens of billions of
dollars.
For the rest, all government financing, direct or indirect,
serving to support education in the liberal arts or humanities should be
abolished, including in primary and secondary education, as well as in higher
education.
In all cases in which licensing laws require degrees of any kind
that contain a liberal arts or humanities component, that requirement should be
deemed satisfied upon a statement to that effect from the candidate’s prospective
employer.
This would make it possible for new centers of learning to be
established that either avoided liberal arts/humanities courses altogether or offered
new and different varieties of such courses.
It is time to defund "education" whose product is ignorance and savagery.
