The quality of a Western education

Here is a very good video by a graduating student from an American University, top of her class, who had some critical remarks to make about her experiences at university, and about the quality of her education.

The more important question is why the American education fails to live up to the expectations of thinking people. I would suggest that there are a number of reasons why this is the case:

1. Public control and funding for education. Religious control of private education, as well as relativist standards of comparison which mean that governments set the standards of education.

2. Collectivist values in society which prompt progressive people to pursue materialist 'freedoms' because their minds are otherwise enslaved to a dmocratic system which preserves a pretense of freedom, but which in fact offers no real participation, representation or freedom. The source of those collectivist values is of course our religious legacy of altruism and self-sacrifice. We are still 'subjects' of God and government despite the rhetoric.

3. The lack of accountability and rational standards held by judicial officers, politicians and more broadly a good number of the public (i.e. voters).

4. Moral relativism which impales people to accept relativist and folk responses to everyday problems. People are not thinking, not challenging the systems which guide their lives. One of the fundamental flaws of our education system is its lack of critical thinking.