February 9 Ed Week

The "College For All Confronted" article did a good job of exposing the everybody needs to go to college myth. I think this myth has been fostered by colleges and universities to fatten their enrollments and bank accounts. Unfortunately, our colleges and universities have fallen victim to the same parasitic greed that the rest of corporate America has. Clearly, when you look at what our education costs and what we are getting for it--we are being "ripped off" in the same way we are being ripped off by our health care system. In the case of health care insurance companies play a large role. In the case of higher education it's this artificial value of the "sheep skin". The ridiculously high costs of tuition skids are being greased by the ease of student loans. "Ease" that is until it's time to start pay them off.