There is one very simple truth about education that we somehow manage to overlook while drowning ourselves in tuition bills, student loans, and academic nonsense dressed up like enlightenment. First, people need to read, write, speak clearly, and understand their own language. Radical stuff, I know. That should be accomplished during the first twelve years of school, assuming the system is doing something besides producing graduates who need spellcheck to order lunch. After that, education should serve two basic purposes: helping people compete in the job market and helping them earn a living. That is not complicated. Education should put skills in the brain and money in the pocket. Everything else should at least have the decency to admit it is a hobby with a campus bookstore. Real education means useful training. Science. Engineering. Computers. Medicine. Law. Government. Business. Skilled trades. These are the fields that keep civilization from collapsing into a committee mee...