Will Conservative Leaders Urging Youth To Avoid Formalized Education Provide Jobs For Those Heeding Such Advice?

Addressing on his 3/23/21 broadcast on how to respond to assorted political policies characterizing contemporary academia such as encouraging students to deliberately select identity pronouns and to forego use of traditional terms such as “mother” and “father”, former Secretary of Education Bill Bennett insisted that the best answer is rather not to. 

Instead, parents should simply direct their children to take an online training course in their respective field of interest. 

Perhaps all well and good for those with aptitudes geared towards skilled trades. 

But what about those wired primarily towards bookishness? 

As a prominent conservative, does Bennett intend to come out in favor of nontraditional colleges and to criticize the organizations of this movement requiring applicants hold an accredited degree even when the advertised position does not require a technical credential such as law or medicine? 

Would Dr. Bennett be satisfied with allowing someone to teach school that is quite educated having familiarized themselves with the online content of Hillsdale College, Prager University, and the Limbaugh Institute of Advanced Conservative Studies but who does not possess a formalized degree to their name? 

For it is only at this point that both parents and those setting out for the sort of the life of the mind that Bill Bennett once served as an inspiration regarding are able to turn their backs entirely on the world of formalized education.

By Frederick Meekins