food for thought...

I would have liked to incorporate this into the last post, but it didn't quite fit and it was long enough as was. This was said by a yoga student named Michael during a conversation about quality of life in Switzerland versus the rest of the world. It pertains specifically to the readiness of post-secondary education in Switzerland versus the USA...

"It seems to me, that is almost as if in America education is deliberately unattainable. Like the elite keep people stupid and poor on purpose. If you give people an education you give them a voice. So if the population cannot educate themselves, they cannot fight their government, and the government does not have to answer to their people. It is like the rich make it more unattainable to have more control over the population."