On Higher Education

Here’s a post I started on July 26 (the day before the California bar exam) but didn’t finish, for obvious reasons.

I’m taking the California bar exam tomorrow. And Wednesday. And Thursday. Reflecting on my experience with “higher education” I think that the fundamental problem with higher education is that rather than serving as a shortcut to gaining the skills and knowledge necessary to being productive in a particular industry it has become a prerequisite in too many industries, law included. Higher education’s economic and societal inefficiencies flow from that basic flaw.

I think short posts like this will become my norm. Rather than trying to comment on the news of the day I’ve become primarily interested in distilling key issues down to their core. I took a stab at this in July, when I wrote:

I can’t spot a difference between the legal argument against gay marriage and the now discredited argument against female suffrage. And from my view, the rationale driving the war on drugs is essentially the same rationale behind gun control. Take note, Republicans.

I’m in the process of articulating my political world view in a similar fashion to my ever-evolving manifesto on equal treatment. That should be up shortly. Until then, the Dialectical Playa has been busy. Check him out.

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