Via Brother Aaron, who notes (Yes, mate, I cleaned up your language a bit. I try to keep here PG )

When NBC admits there’s an education bubble then you know American students are really forcked.

I have said this many times. The university is a sheltered workshop for the highly intelligent. There are communication issues when dealing with those who are two or three standard deviations in general intelligence

Additional trade schools, and not four-year college degrees, may be a better bet for U.S. workers, according to new economic research.

The amount of vocational training available relative to the size of a country’s manufacturing sector may reduce income inequality, and improve the fortunes of workers earning below the top 10 percent of household incomes, the data show.

“Pushing more students to B.A. granting colleges may no longer be the most efficient way to deal with the challenges caused by the decline in manufacturing employment,” wrote Joshua Aizenman, the economics chair at University of Southern California. He did the research with academics at New Zealand’s Victoria University of Wellington.

And declined it certainly has.

In September 1977, about 18.3 million people, or more than 18 percent of the U.S. labor force, worked in U.S. manufacturing. Forty years later, that number has since slipped to 12.4 million.

In the last month, I have been to the final high school leaving ceremony in our melded family. The deputy head girl won a scholarship. Not to university (there were seven or eight of those given) but to Polytech, where there is a nursing program. My minister is leaving our congregation to work as a chaplain in a local church school, where he is needed. They celebrate every boy — and this is a private school — who gets an apprenticeship.

Universal degrees mean universal debt. This is foolish.

University is a sheltered workshop for the very bright. Most of whom got a ‘diagnosis’ of being on some sort of spectrum from their teachers, who did not understand them. Let that be so. It loses its purpose when it is universal.