Is the Value of Education Questionable?

The sentiment expressed at left makes sense to many of us, but, upon reflection, it comes from two completely disparate camps: the opposite ends of the IQ bell curve.

We happily grant that people like Mozart, Einstein, Monet, and Mark Twain himself, didn’t learn anything in school that tapped into their genius, and that they (and we) would have been better off if they had been spared whatever was inflicted upon them in the name of “education.”

We also grant that our working class received very little from their education that advanced their position in modern-day America in any meaningful way.

But what about the rest of us, including the mainstream of 2GreenEnergy readers?  Speaking strictly for myself, I spent my early life immersed in a world of critical thinking, and I’ve never stepped out.  It seems to me that it’s worked out fairly well. Wouldn’t most of us say the same?

Most of the complaint against education isn’t coming from the Einsteins and Twains of the world.  It’s coming from those who believe that our colleges crank out liberals who, for example, have a hard time with the idea that Trump was an honest and effective servant of the American people and the victim of a rigged election.

In any case, it’s a weak claim indeed that young people would be better people if they were prevented from reading the world’s great books.