PJ Media

The real road to the middle class is work, not college education. The perfect way for a welfare recipient to better himself or herself would be an apprenticeship to a plumber, an electrician, a draftsman, a mechanic, or a mason. An apprenticeship pays immediately and leads to a middle class life in the trades. The only requirement (other than personal character) in most cases is a vehicle, which is freeing in itself.

I find it instructional and ironic that a professor in “educational policy studies and sociology” is here acting as a lobbyist for higher education instead of honestly exploring the path from dependence (on the government-extorted money of taxpayers) to independence.