It's also good to remember that, like health, public education has a direct stimulating effect on the GDP. A healthy and well-educated populace is a competitive populace.
Higher education by default creates a more highly educated population
Educated people are likely to be more circumspect with politicians
The greatest fear for politicians is an educated electorate
Ask Stalin who he sent to the Gulags -
Miners or Teachers
Farmers or Journalists
Dumb people tell you it’s elitist to get an education because of the obvious self-displeasure within themselves and it makes them feel better and not hurt themselves. Instead of using that time to just educate themselves and gain knowledge & TRUTH
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.
I love universities, especially the community college I am going to graduate from in June. Even being around the most jaded career obsessed students is freeing
The truly elitist thing about some universities is legacy admissions, but for some reason Republicans don't find that to be in opposition to their alleged goal of "meritocracy"
The right needs the population dumb & uneducated. It is easier to lie to people like that (and have them believe you) and being dumb & uneducated is the only way people ever vote for far-right fascists.
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Higher education by default creates a more highly educated population
Educated people are likely to be more circumspect with politicians
The greatest fear for politicians is an educated electorate
Ask Stalin who he sent to the Gulags -
Miners or Teachers
Farmers or Journalists
Fascist nations tend to promote and tolerate open hostility to higher education, and academia. Free expression in the arts is openly attacked, and governments often refuse to fund the arts.