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Suggestion For Grandson About Tuition
Investigate the Scandinavian sovereignties where they sense the importance of learning and offer everyone 20 years of free public education. :-)
Imagine, that educational offer? 20 years of free public education , whenever you want it -- is made to everyone in some Scandinavian countries ?
That is the equivalent of our American present K-12 and an addition of 4-year college and university educations like our wondrous GI-Bill after WWII, and even another year for a Master's Degree or some specialized whatever, and still two more.... Imagine? Free?
We Americans are graduating scholars so deeply in debt, they have to quit further education and find paying jobs to make the payments on their loans.
Uncle Sam, the loan shark's pal?
In those Scandinavian nations, I further understand that you can drop out for any length of time and come back when you feel you want more education. :-)
The overreaching problem in the United States is the existing "made up minds".
Deep within the social structures of our laws, rules and regulations and, as sociologists say, "mores, folkways, customs and taboos", 99% of us already "know". :-)
Note that your grandson can make $50,000 a year as a Santa Barbara policeman (and can retire in his 40s).
The CHP or the County Sheriff's may be even better and if you become a California Prison Guard, you become a member of the most politically powerful union in all of California.
On to Further-Out or Larger Perspectives
The great problem lies in the Invisible Arena of Social Structures.
Sociological and psychological experience teaches. Imagine that 99% of the people I meet are unaware of social structures?
The great majority of us 21st century Americans are John Stuart Mills's 1859 "On Liberty."
Imagine, back in 1859, people's minds filled with "Dead Dogma"?
Here in the 21st century, Mills's "dead dogma" still fills the great majority of us with our faith in our already made-up minds.
Remember the Biblical phrase, "I have known one man in a thousand"?
Perhaps those Biblical Elders truly understood us humans?
Even today in 2006?
Imagine today? 999 out of 1000 of us hold opinions on every subject.
Any intelligence in the majority of us humans already "knows"!
What we "know", almost by definition, is simply so much dogma, long-accepted by us as "truth".
The fact may be that we are dancing about full of J. S. Mills's "Dead Dogma" and with our mind's like T. S. Eliot's "headpiece filled with straw". We humans are as Erving Goffman wrote, "Like puppets dancing on invisible strings."
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