Some believe as I do that higher education is about credentialism rather than education.
https://www.forbes.com/sites/brandonbusteed/2020/10/17/we-do…
It’s time for our country to reckon with itself on the deeply held value of education. Is it education that we value? Or is it the credential that results from certain types of education?
Colleges and universities do indeed suggest they value education; for example, ‘lifelong learning’ is one of the most common phrases in college mission statements. But they don’t reward lifelong learning in any way. They only reward the learning that comes in the form of degrees – 2-year, 4-year and post-graduate.
Vocational education has been devalued in this nation. It is no longer offered in public Schools I don’t believe. Though I am sure a few exceptions could be found.
H L Mencken on public education.;
"The aim of public education is not to spread enlightenment at all; it is simply to reduce as many individuals as possible to the same safe level, to breed a standard citizenry, to put down dissent and originality.
H. L. Mencken
The American Mercury (ed. 1924)