Editor,
Do most college graduates live more wisely than minimum wage workers who never went to high school? Do most college graduates travel less, pollute less, cause less global climate chaos? Do most college graduates pay less federal income tax for war? Do most college graduates consume less and live more simply and fairly in our world family of more than seven billion people? Do most college graduates take strong public stands against U.S. greed and wars? Do most college graduates choose jobs that help more than harm?
When Gandhi was asked what worried him the most, he said, “The hardness of heart of the educated.”
Albert Einstein said, “More and more I have come to value charity and love of other above everything else. All our lauded technological progress, our very civilization, is like an ax in the hand of a pathological criminal.”
As long as the main motive for many students to get a college degree is to get more money than anyone needs, big power, and worldly prestige, higher education is no sure path to a better world of fairness and compassion for all people.
Gandhi said, “Be the change you want to see in the world...My life is my message.”
I was a college dropout, but in the university of life, I constantly collect wisdom on how to live and how not to live. I collect wisdom in order to live it every day.
I lived well in 2015 on $4,958.00 for my total living expenses, less than half the U.S. poverty level and less than half the federal income taxable level for me as a single person – I enjoy living simply and healthy!
Don Schrader
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