Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the claim that corporations need H1-B visas to fill vacancies Americans supposedly aren’t talented enough to fill… is proof of failure of our education system. The US is a nation of over 300,000,000 people with supposedly the best colleges on the planet. If there is a skill or talent that isn’t resident here it’s because the education system failed. Indeed every time a business complains they can’t find qualified people, they are really complaining about our education system. The reality is that the education system, being part of the administrative state… is above criticism. So we are reduced to criticizing their victims, or face punishment at the hands of our overlords. Therefore as an expedient, the government has created the H1-B system to bypass our failed education system.
If a nation fails, it’s because of a long string of bad decisions. Education being one of the most critical failures. The outcome of an education system depends on the goals. If it exists to give well paid jobs to political cronies then you can expect an outcome very similar to ours. The goal could be to make the best educated kids in the world, as we find in many Asian nations. If the goal is to prepare kids to succeed in life, then we need to look at the American system at the turn of the Century… before the progressives polluted the process. Early progressive education philosophers posited that education should make good factory workers and politically reliable voters. So they rearranged the US education system to that end. Whereupon the elite moved the factories across the ocean.
Meanwhile the universities were being filled with like minded progressives in their long march through the institutions that Wilson started more than a century ago. In the 1970s they thought the centrally planned system would eventually win out. I mean how could it not? It’s centrally planned by the smartest people, against a Hodge-podge system where individuals participate in a rat race. Yet to the brainiac’s astonishment, the capitalist system won again. Proving central planning a failure again. So they changed tactics but not strategy. They infected the universities with woke. So instead of defending the worker, who they had thrown under the bus with the green movement, moving factories overseas, and importing workers to fill the jobs they couldn’t export. Now they would defend the mentally ill.
So the progressives aimed education at attacking mental health and elevating the mentally ill to hero status. Then made the most profitable attribute… victimhood. Going along with the mental health theme. Turning an education system that was producing people unfit for service in most jobs, because they have been trained to be angry, lazy, and entitled. Woke has even infected the hard sciences. Today, the smart people in colleges bend a knee to the stupid ones or be ostracized. So our education system, top to bottom, is unfit for service in the most fundamental way. It still follows an outdated and caustic philosophy that was already outdated in the 1960s. Then added to that the absurdist notion of woke… and you have entire generations educated to be worthless… at great taxpayer expense.
How much more proof of failure do we need before we act? The very existence of H1-B visas and the demand for them is damning of our educators. Our kids are sent in smart, happy, and ready to win… then come out stupid, ignorant, and confused if they are a boy or girl. As we’re lectured on how closed minded we are for wanting them educated to win in life. The answer is as obvious as wet pants. Get the central planner out of education. To that end, exploit a system that has proven to work over and over… the market system. Bring market forces to bear with a voucher system. Give parents a state voucher to pay for whatever school they want. Being self-interested they will choose one that is best for their individual kids. Which will lead to well educated graduates ready to work… and win.
Sincerely,
John Pepin
H1-B Visas And Education
Dear Friends,
It seems to me, the claim that corporations need H1-B visas to fill vacancies Americans supposedly aren’t talented enough to fill… is proof of failure of our education system. The US is a nation of over 300,000,000 people with supposedly the best colleges on the planet. If there is a skill or talent that isn’t resident here it’s because the education system failed. Indeed every time a business complains they can’t find qualified people, they are really complaining about our education system. The reality is that the education system, being part of the administrative state… is above criticism. So we are reduced to criticizing their victims, or face punishment at the hands of our overlords. Therefore as an expedient, the government has created the H1-B system to bypass our failed education system.
If a nation fails, it’s because of a long string of bad decisions. Education being one of the most critical failures. The outcome of an education system depends on the goals. If it exists to give well paid jobs to political cronies then you can expect an outcome very similar to ours. The goal could be to make the best educated kids in the world, as we find in many Asian nations. If the goal is to prepare kids to succeed in life, then we need to look at the American system at the turn of the Century… before the progressives polluted the process. Early progressive education philosophers posited that education should make good factory workers and politically reliable voters. So they rearranged the US education system to that end. Whereupon the elite moved the factories across the ocean.
Meanwhile the universities were being filled with like minded progressives in their long march through the institutions that Wilson started more than a century ago. In the 1970s they thought the centrally planned system would eventually win out. I mean how could it not? It’s centrally planned by the smartest people, against a Hodge-podge system where individuals participate in a rat race. Yet to the brainiac’s astonishment, the capitalist system won again. Proving central planning a failure again. So they changed tactics but not strategy. They infected the universities with woke. So instead of defending the worker, who they had thrown under the bus with the green movement, moving factories overseas, and importing workers to fill the jobs they couldn’t export. Now they would defend the mentally ill.
So the progressives aimed education at attacking mental health and elevating the mentally ill to hero status. Then made the most profitable attribute… victimhood. Going along with the mental health theme. Turning an education system that was producing people unfit for service in most jobs, because they have been trained to be angry, lazy, and entitled. Woke has even infected the hard sciences. Today, the smart people in colleges bend a knee to the stupid ones or be ostracized. So our education system, top to bottom, is unfit for service in the most fundamental way. It still follows an outdated and caustic philosophy that was already outdated in the 1960s. Then added to that the absurdist notion of woke… and you have entire generations educated to be worthless… at great taxpayer expense.
How much more proof of failure do we need before we act? The very existence of H1-B visas and the demand for them is damning of our educators. Our kids are sent in smart, happy, and ready to win… then come out stupid, ignorant, and confused if they are a boy or girl. As we’re lectured on how closed minded we are for wanting them educated to win in life. The answer is as obvious as wet pants. Get the central planner out of education. To that end, exploit a system that has proven to work over and over… the market system. Bring market forces to bear with a voucher system. Give parents a state voucher to pay for whatever school they want. Being self-interested they will choose one that is best for their individual kids. Which will lead to well educated graduates ready to work… and win.
Sincerely,
John Pepin