[TheRealThing]

As a college professor, I can assure you that, in most colleges of today, it is very difficult to fail a class. Most colleges are driven by numbers and financial support. They prostitute any semblance of academic credibility in order to increase the amount of student aid coming in to the "students" and the colleges. Student aid can't flourish if students don't "pass' classes. Therefore, nearly all "pass" to continue another semester of largess.

Student aid is, in a great majority of the cases, criminal. The colleges and the "students" work together to perpetrate the fraud. Since both benefit financially and since the system encourages collusion between them, the victim of the whole mess is the taxpayer.

After all, the taxpayer foots the entire bill. and in the end the result is more and more people with college hours and maybe even a college degree who are as dumb as they were when they were socially promoted from some public high school. But they did enjoy their free years in college at the expense of the taxpayers. And, they know that there are far more handouts ahead with Obama than with Romney. So, they will vote accordingly and seek unemployment, disability, or some other similar government program to provide for their "needs".

It doesn't matter what government program one is at odds with. The same mentality regarding welfare which, (and this is where I can accept the theory of evolution without reservation) at some time past, 'evolved' into a state of acceptance of same. Is now, a source of pride and entitlement for folks who play the system without working "a lick." Many folks are inherently prone to take the easy path, even if that means sticking taxpayers with the bill. Honestly, if the program was run with integrity, things would be much better. And, there are students with high standards that benefit from a college education subsidized by the government.

I have never subscribed to the notion that quality of education is directly comensurate to money invested. Educators don't agree with me on this however, there are an awful lot of egg-headed over achievers out there, that hail from modest origins education wise. I believe people who really want an education are prone to make the most of their experience in school. And, I believe that attribute starts early, and is in no small way passed on from parents. Lack of parental wisdom is the real scourge of the American educatonal scene. Teachers fancy themselves the quicksilver connection between diamond in the rough students and self fulfillment. Certainly that can happen, but the problem is more one of character than of finance. Just MHO