Here is a subject near and dear to my heart: public education, or the lack thereof.
Those who have ever read anything from me on education know that I think we should defund the entire thing. What we have in America today is not education, it is indoctrination. No academic can compete with the internet.
In fact, it is criminal that in the age of the internet, we still have public schools mandated and controlled by a centralized Department of ‘Education.’
The internet is a compendium of all the human knowledge that has ever existed, it is cheap and in some cases completely free to use, it works at light speed, and anyone on the planet can be contacted and collaborated with via the internet.
Did I mention that YouTube, a single website that can be called a university, in its own right, is completely free to use?
YouTube hosts courses from Stanford, MIT, and the Columbia School of Business (for free).
But never mind all that, let’s keep pretending that a centralized system from the 1800s is valid competition for the World Wide Web, as liberals would have us believe.
Internet or no internet, our ‘education’ system is a complete