On Wed, Oct 12, 2011 at 2:52 PM, David Shemano <[email protected]> wrote: > Can we agree that these for-profit scams, consuming 25% of federal aid > dollars, exist > precisely because the government is tossing buckets of money at education, > thereby drawing > in the scam artists?
I do not agree with this at all. The for-profits exist because of corruption in the Education Department. Not because the government is generically "tossing buckets of money at education". If I start a counterfeit soda company and sell "Coca Cola" branded drinks which make people sick and a corrupt government refuses to enforce the law against me, are you going to say that this is a problem with the soft drinks industry? Here are some counterfeit scammers calling themselves colleges and universities and you are saying this is somehow a problem with education policy in general. How is that reasonable? > I agree that these "for profits" are, on average, scams. But it is not their > "for-profit" status that > is the problem. I am surprised a sophisticated > leftist would look at "Joe's Vocational School" > and Harvard and say one is > for-profit because one has shareholders and the other is not > for-profit one does not have shareholders. Harvard is a money-making machine. Harvard has all kinds of problems but it is not fundamentally a scam. The "university" of Phoenix is. Harvard needs reform. Phoenix needs to be shut down and its executives put in prison. The two are not remotely comparable. -raghu. _______________________________________________ pen-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.csuchico.edu/mailman/listinfo/pen-l
