Bertologue

In the USA we focus on higher education instead of hire education. This has led to use having a veritable army of educated idiots who cannot do much of anything and have very few marketable skills.  With the creation of the federal Office of Education in 1867 to  collect information on schools and teaching that would help the States establish effective school systems.  Then in 1941 the Lanham act and in 1944 with the GI Bill, there became a lot more money pushed by the federal government for 4-year universities and the boom was off. Universities started popping up everywhere and offering easier and lax degrees to cater to those who now had money, but did not have the intellectual capabilities to obtain a degree with meaning and substance.  This was only spurred on in 1958 with the NDEA as an American response to Sputnik.  The intention was to create a more educated populace that could invent and build the newest technology and beat the Russians to the moon and into the future. The in