The view that education is or should be a job certification factory is one of the biggest problems with American education today and one of the reasons we don't

The view that education is or should be a job certification factory is one of the biggest problems with American education today and one of the reasons we don't have a democracy. Education should be about teaching people how to learn, how to teach themselves, how to think critically, and how to challenge both authority and their own ideas. That's what a liberal arts degree once aspired to be. That what a high school education should be, but really never has been. University should not be a job certification factory. We have trade schools and apprenticeships for that.