General Discussion

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we have a national interest in having the best educated population in the world.

50 years ago, most of the innovations were coming from the USA: transistors, space exploration, pharmaceuticals, telephony, computers and everything else, and much of that emerged from research at great universities. Today the most important thing in 90% of the universities is recruiting (with millions of dollars of NIL money) the next great point guard or quarterback, many of whom have no intention of ever getting a college education or degree. In the past, philanthropy from alumni funded libraries or research centers. Today, much of that money goes into the NIL pool, and the university makes up the difference by charging runaway tuition rates.

The center of technology today is not Silicon valley or Austin. It is in Asia. Just about all the new energy products come from China or S. Korea. Hard drives come from Indonesia and elsewhere.

When you look at education levels ranked by state, the ten most educated states are al blue states
https://worldpopulationreview.com/state-rankings/most-educated-states

But the Republicans want to eliminate education. Their goal, evidently, is for everybody to be like Oklahoma or Mississippi. I really don't care what OK or MS do to themselves, but the idea of eliminating education will just add momentum to our race to the bottom as a nation.