Spencer Johnson (@spencerjohnson)

Great thoughts, roobz. I agree with your diagnosis of the problem and your analysis but I think I disagree with one of your causes. I don't believe that primary education begat higher education which begat graduate education. Universities are much older than primary and secondary education, even in the US. Granted, the only professions universities orignally taught were clergymen, canon lawyers, and doctors. Other uni education was meant to teach people how to use their freedoms virtuously, not for job training or skills qualification/certification. You could certainly argue that the rapid expansion of educational institutions as a means of financial success is a corruption of education. Ideally those skills would be taught by a master tradesman to an apprentice. Instead we just shove everyone to a four year university for everything, necessitating that institution's expansion, perpetuating the problem. Surely this also contributes to the Chronically 20 phenomenon.