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I think the dumbing down of colleges began with student loans, especially the privatization of student loans. The privatization of student loans also increased the push for higher tuition.

Think about it. First, the longer a student stays in college, the more he/she borrows, the deeper in debt he/she becomes, and the more money the lender makes. If the student fails, gets kicked out of college, he/she can’t borrow more money, and the lender makes less. The management of such lenders are often on the boards of colleges and have political influence through campaign contributions and bribes. The longer a student stays in college, the more the lenders make. Such lenders have two interests, first, that tuition should go up and, second, that the difficulty of college should go down.

I saw something similar 30 years ago when I was a welfare worker. Many of my clients would enroll in bogus “privatized” educational institutions because the state paid the tuition and because they hoped it would allow them to get work and get off welfare and make more money. The sad thing about this was that many of the courses of study were useless and pointless. Any student who failed represented a loss of income so these companies made sure the courses were very easy. I remember a client that took nine months of training for…wait for it…receptionist.

Now many public colleges and some private colleges (remember that Bush didn’t flunk out of Yale) have dumbed down to satisfy the desire of private lenders. The lenders make more money, the students learn less and end up in debt for life. Most of this satisfies the desires of the moneyed classes. The people end up dumb, uneducated, and in debt slavery. Win-win for the rich.

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