Good points, all. And there is a flip side. The founders of our country who got a higher education studied things like Greek, Latin, geometry, ancient history, logic, ethics and rhetoric. There was an attempt to broaden the perspective of the individual.

An education should leave a person with an appreciation of the world, different cultures, different values. One of America's big problems today is that we do not have a clue as to why other societies believe as they do, how they have adapted to their local conditions, how they are finely attuned to their individual situations.

We have a bunch of technocrats who think that power is enough, and that other countries should adopt our values or be blown away. People who have been trained to get jobs, and nothing else.

Higher education used to be where future leaders found, then polished and buffed, their souls.

It's interesting that in this day and age, with TV and the internet we still have so little appreciation for others.