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1. :ihavenomouth: (inginsub@clubcyberia.co)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 22:40:13 JST :ihavenomouth:

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   • David Benfell, Ph.D. (benfell@hcommons.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 22:40:14 JST David Benfell, Ph.D.

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     1/2 Well, that's a little short of 'mandatory,' and it's also older than the early 2000s.

     There was a time in the 1950s and 1960s when the U.S. got worried about competing with the Soviet Union and we really started encouraging kids to go to school. This was a recognition of education as a public rather than a private benefit.

     As the Soviet threat receded, and as neoliberalism took hold, we decided education was an individual benefit, and we started financing education with student loans, allowing college costs to skyrocket and saddling students with ludicrous amounts of debt. That the government guaranteed the loans and kept interest rates relatively low for unsecured debt was the sole remaining concession to the notion of a public benefit.

     Anti-intellectualism, always a major force in the U.S., has been on the rise ever since.

   • jaf (jeff@misinformation.wikileaks2.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 22:40:15 JST jaf

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     @Benfell it was a huge cultural shift where everyone in my generation was sold the "go to college and you'll be fine" world view. most people should not go to college but for some reason it was seen as abnormal to not in the social environment of the era of the early 2000s
   • David Benfell, Ph.D. (benfell@hcommons.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 22:40:16 JST David Benfell, Ph.D.

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     @jeff

     Who made higher education (meaning college and university) mandatory when?

   • jaf (jeff@misinformation.wikileaks2.org)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 22:40:17 JST jaf

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     • David Benfell, Ph.D.
     @Benfell the value of a college degree went down when higher education was made mandatory.
   • David Benfell, Ph.D. (benfell@hcommons.social)'s status on Friday, 14-Jul-2023 22:40:18 JST David Benfell, Ph.D.

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