tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229771691402494724.post3710719514008762096..comments2024-02-27T13:46:29.728+09:00Comments on A Nuttycellist's Monologue: The high education is facing to further difficulty.Shin JA1NUThttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01887476281297960362noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229771691402494724.post-32961489897376604392014-09-28T20:31:51.585+09:002014-09-28T20:31:51.585+09:00Interesting, Jim. In the US, I am afraid, the tuit...Interesting, Jim. In the US, I am afraid, the tuition of private schools is generally too expensive for ordinary people to study. Is it because of the cut back of the budget for subsidey from the fed government? I know some good students could get some scholarship. But the other ordinary ones without scholarship get loan from somewhere, don't they? <br /><br />Education should be one of the mutual social capital, which must be free from control by any parties or classes. I believe our system has been in good shape since the end of the WWII. recently, however, the administration bureaucrats seem to govern the education by a variety of means, I am afraid. Universities without liberal arts are impossible. Liberal arts and basic science studies are the base of university. Neglecting those subjects may deteriorate the quality of the education and the developement of applied science. <br /><br />The business circles and the bureaucrats seem to want to govern the education, I am afraid. Then Japan would become like Russia and the middle East countries without natural resources.Shin JA1NUThttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01887476281297960362noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-229771691402494724.post-11605279278940026432014-09-27T19:48:09.578+09:002014-09-27T19:48:09.578+09:00In the U.S, government support for "public&qu...In the U.S, government support for "public" universities has gone down. Many (if not all) U.S. states have cut back substantially. Fortunately, private contributions (and tuition costs) have increased. As an example, in Virginia, where I attended undergraduate college, the state has cut back funding so much that the "Big Three" in terms of public support, William and Mary, UVA, and Virginia Tech, have public funding in the high single digits (UVA) and the teens (W&M and VT). But the state continues to want to have control over the schools in certain key ways: tuition increases, regent selection, etc. Like you said, the intellectual "capital" of the people is the most important contribution to good governance and reaching the full potential of the people. The resource rich countries like Russia and the Gulf oil and gas states often have lousy, controlled, authoritan governments. In the U.S, the most enlightened states are the ones with educated populations. States with poorly educated people and/or great fossil fuel wealth often are dominated by wealth-dominated governments. Japan has been an example of good governance since the war, becoming a world leader based on intellectual developments. I hope that it continues. Jim George N3BBhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00892365818279659217noreply@blogger.com