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He says that this has been happening since the '1970's' - but historically, most Universities were effectively private, or run by the founding charities, i.e. C

He says that this has been happening since the '1970's' - but historically, most Universities were effectively private, or run by the founding charities, i.e. Churches etc.. Queen's University in Kingston Ontario was founded in the early 19th century and run basically by the Presbyterian and United Church until the 1950's - when Ontario reorganized how public Unis would be funded. Which I think is ballpark similar to how things operated in other countries. I'm not making a point for or against - other than to say that this idea of 'government funded directly secular education' was kind of an anomaly in the history of higher education. Worth noting. It'd be nice to have a way to truly judge the merits of research ... so hard ... Even harder in 2016 when everything 'must be measured' ...

edblarney 10y ago
Also - to note - only 1/3 of people realistically go on to 'higher education' ... What about the other 2/3s? Those 'with degrees' seem to be doing ok, overall. This without - not so good. Germany has a 'vocational' system that enables/empowers those who don't want to go off and study Math or History, and it seems to work well, though it's very deeply entrenched into industry, into culture - and maybe somewhat unfair as it is kind of 'class perpetuating' ... by the time kids are 14 they are already being slotted into one stream or another (richer parents = more likely to go upstream). I'll never speak out against 'more college' but America actually does put more than anyone else through college, and spends more $ and more $/capita than any other nation. It'd be great to figure out a way to put the other 2/3's into the economy in a meaningful way. Nobody seems to want to speak for them ...