> That's the point -- there's a difference between education and training. Excellent point. Two problems: (1) Over the past ~2.5 generations, the narrative ab

> That's the point -- there's a difference between education and training. Excellent point. Two problems: (1) Over the past ~2.5 generations, the narrative about education has been informed by the conventional wisdom of {grades -> university -> job -> pension}. Hence, education is now only nominally about producing 'citizens of the republic' (so to speak), and de facto about producing well-trained workers. Disambiguating these goals is important, but hampered by... (2) The perverse incentives created by cheap government money encourage malinvestment (i.e. an English degree [I say this with love — my wife is an English major]), and the consequent propensity of industry to not only see it as a jobs program, but also as a government policy problem.