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Thread #136370 Message #3115495
Posted By: Lizzie Cornish 1
17-Mar-11 - 04:47 AM
Thread Name: Death of Education?
Subject: RE: Death of Education?
Oh..and by the way, I don't know if you watched BBC Breakfast News today, but they were discussing how the average University student now leaves Uni £39,000 in debt. This will, in time, become far more, due to the interest they need to pay back...Most will pay, on average, around £50,000....some will pay around £82,000 (!!)
They said that if you wanted to never pay it back then you had to keep to a job under £21,000 (easypeasy down here in The West Country, as that's BIG money!)...and the debt gets written off after 30 years....THIRTY YEARS!
Sooooo, most kids are going to start their lives with debts we could never have imagined back when we were their age. They'll be paying it back (if they can find ANY job) at a time when they're needing to finance a mortgage, a family...a LIFE...
They will have no lives...
They will be slaves to the Corporate Finance Bastards...
Oh, and of course..Mummy and Daddy ain't allowed to pay their loans back early, else they'll be charged a whacking penalty to ensure the interest the crooked government would have made from them still comes their way...
Now tell me, because obviously, being a complete numbskull as I am...what kind of 'educated' population thinks this is a good deal?????
What the fuck is going wrong in that kids are coming out of school and signing up to this crap for possibly the majority of their lives without QUESTIONING it?????
Yes, they ARE starting to take to the streets, but it's not enough, because whilst they're still signing up to it, urged on by stoopid parents who have been educated in the same institution, this will carry on and on and on....
Hey parents, sign up here to mortgage your house off, so your kids can go to Uni...then end up working in Tescos whilst you have to hope the local authority will end up finding you a house!
Geez!
Talk about Dumbing Down....
READ John Taylor Gatto and realise that all he says is true, school is doing EXACTLY what it's supposed to be doing....creating the new consumers, the new population who sign on the line and who believe everything they're being told about The New Jerusalem....