Job Preparation Quotes
When her husband was vice president she was at a Job Corps center to speak, but was asked by the press about rumors that her husband has been involved with another woman:
This quotation is an excellent of a particular anti-intellectual view of education that is held by a significant number of Americans. For them, the only societal purpose of education is to prepare students for jobs, not to improve the intellectual quality of life for the student and not to make him/her a better citizen by learning our history and developing critical thinking skills. They argue that education will enlighten students and make them better citizens and better developed people, independent of their vocational choices. They do not claim that schools should not prepare students for jobs, but that job preparation is not the major or only purpose of education.
profit making schools of higher education The latter years of the 20th century saw a large increase in the number of proprietary, profit making colleges and other institutions of higher education. These were able to utilize the Federal student loan programs. However, many were fraudulent rip-offs. Most were unaccredited. The average proprietary school obtained more federal student loan money per student than non-profit schools {639817}, and did not train their students as well. A smaller percentage of their students get their degrees and find jobs. When they do obtain employment they make less money. Congressional pressure, induced by heavy lobbying, stopped Department of Education efforts to make schools with poor graduation or employment rates ineligible for use of Student Loan Programs.
The President had appointed his brother Robert Kennedy as U. S. Attorney General. Critics charged that although Robert was an attorney, he had never tried a case in court. With tongue in cheek the President replied…
