Reply #14: What's wrong with university education for all?

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The GI bill changed America and made the US the only country in the world where university education is available to all. Most will tell you that that was the deciding factor in the enormous economic expansion in the second-half of the 20th century. But beyond that, the results have had tremendous impact in Academe. The overwhelming majority of Nobel Prize winners in the sciences now either work at American universities or are Americans themselves. You go into bookstores anywhere in the Western world - not just in anglophone countries - and book after book after book is by Americans. This isn't simply because of globalization, this is because thanks to universal university education we simply produce more educated people than any other country in the world (with the possible exception of India).