Pat Condell: Free Speech On Campus

The main reason people go to college is for the job opportunities that college opens up, jobs provided mainly by the private sector. But colleges themselves are not for profit, and they are staffed by professors who often have a hostile attitude towards private business. Yet, the very businesses they disdain are the reason they can charge a king’s ransom in tuition and be highly paid. The way to change all this is to separate education for business from general education. Business and government should only subsidize and recognize technical vocational education for the many and leave liberal arts to private, unsubsidized institutions that exist purely for the intellectual enrichment of the few. That will minimize the political content of education and stop the excessive subsidization of radical ideologues.