Blog Post #10

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Cgqbj1TgLl9IhdmJXK-cN7Q4vR-ukj5QcM6UNZ6GUoE/edit - please note that the google doc which contains my final paper has been shared with you via google docs, thank you

Abstract: This paper will establish how the long term failure of the United States of America to maintain an imagined community, as outlined by Benedict Anderson in Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism, which focuses on the betterment of society not the individual has resulted in a reversion to American rugged individualism and privatization in higher education. This coupled with the state ideology of “college for all” has resulted in a dramatic rise in the price of college tuition due to decreased federal aid and an increased reliance on the private sector to fund education. This has with rise in college enrollment helped to devaluate college degrees and create an educational bubble. This bubble is much like the housing bubble. Finally, the American “community” and system it has created will be juxtaposed to the multi-tiered German education system and its success due to its focus on community. 

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