The article defeats its own arguments with statements like, "In other words, education enriches individuals much more than it enriches nations." Hard to argue a

The article defeats its own arguments with statements like, "In other words, education enriches individuals much more than it enriches nations." Hard to argue against education at that point but the article tries anyway. Let's ignore the fact that that is the point of education. When was it the the object of education to teach specific job skills? That's a new one to me. After all, we must be talking about fortune tellers if you can tell which job skills will be in most demand and pay best two decades from now. It's sad that people don't want to learn, educate, or improve themselves. It's a defeatist attitude and sad that we as a society are willing to explore so little of people's potential. This attitude towards education in the US is, in many ways, more corrosive to our society than the lack of quality education itself.