From the Amazon's blurb of the author's CV:
He served three years in the army, and the GI Bill paid for his college education, helping him earn degrees from Fort Steilacoom Community Collge, Central Washington State Collage, and the University of Puget Sound School of Law.Well, you know, I think I'll wait a bit before committing myself to these books, if it is all the same to you...
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Snoopy, the GI Bill and community college are typical parts of the career of upwardly-mobile working-class Americans. And there is nothing unrespectable about UPS law school. In an earlier generation, the equivalent might have been a degree from City College of New York, an institution that played a major role in the upward mobility of American Jews.
In the US, the graduates of the most prestigious institutions of higher education have never dominated the professions, business, and government as they do in many other countries (France being one of the most extreme examples). This is the deliberate result of a public policy of providing broad access to higher education, beginning with the establishment of state (as in the individual states) universities, then the (state) land-grant universities (originally referred to disparagingly as "cow colleges"), then the creation of community colleges, then the GI Bill. This is a policy in which Americans justifiably take pride, if they are not so ignorant as to take it for granted.
That post wasn't about the (quite respectable, true) education path. If you look closer at the text...
Snoopy, sorry if I misinterpreted your point. However, I still cannot see another meaning in your post. Can you provide a little hint for my aging mind?
Aha! Your point is well-taken.
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