Now entrance with less than ninety percent GPS is rare. Books, tuition, and living costs are most prohibitive. Historically, some of the great innovators, in science, math and literature, were average students who were successful because of their non-conformity attributes and abilities to think outside the box.
Today they are excluded. We should go back to ‘once upon a time’ as it really was here in the early nineteen sixties and make costs affordable again, not just weigh computerized grade point averages as the sole determination for acceptance.
His quote makes one reflect upon Shakespeare and specifically King Lear’s Fool. The roots of higher education today are indeed bitter for those financially in the elite, Masters and PHDs, the guarantee no longer always so sweet. Without those degrees they might have been more secure – finding employment with a local city government recycling bins on whatever cul-de-sac or street.
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