EDUCATION in the USA

Elementary School prepares us for Junior High School...  and, Junior High School prepares us for High School...  and, High School prepares us for College... but, does very little to prepare those graduates who are not going to College...

Why is our educational system designed this way?

An Undergraduate Degree prepares you for a Masters Degree...   and, a Masters Degree prepares you for a PhD...   even when the college graduate has no desire to pursue anymore education...

Why is our High Education System designed this way?

CORRECT ME IF I AM WRONG... but the USA also needs:

• carpenters
• electricians
• brick layers
• construction workers
• farmers/laborers
• mechanics
• hair dressers/barbers
• waiters/waitresses
• cooks/bus boys
• taxi drivers
• mail deliverers
• secretaries/clerks
• cafeteria workers
• roofers & gutters
• auto assemblers
• house painters
• retail workers
• fast food workers
• street cleaners
• road repair crews
• luxury pool builders
• airline personnel
• motel/resort workers
• baggage handlers
• steel workers
• carpet makers
• furniture makers
• call center operators
• stockers & shippers
• lawn care workers
• limo drivers
• maintenance workers
• machine operators
• welders
• truck/bus drivers
• military personnel
• blue collar workers of all sorts, shapes, and sizes

AND YET...  all we seem to care about is COLLEGE...  COLLEGE...  COLLEGE...   and it would appear to me that OUR LEADERS are OUR LEADERS because we perceive them as SMART not as being STUPID....

BUT WHEN...  I look at what we have done and what we have created here in the United States of America, I see a FRIGGING MESS of STUPIDITY on display instead of the brilliance of our intellectual capacities...

SMART PEOPLE DON'T JUST THINK ONE WAY...  and yet, our education roads are all ONE WAY HIGHWAYS...