LET'S GO ALL THE WAY WITH SOCIALISM - HOW ABOUT IN EDUCATION? ***** Why, certainly; if we can emulate the health care systems of Socialist countries, why aren't their higher education models also worth copying? Typically, in such a nation, when a student completes eighth grade or so, his educational future is determined by an examination. Unlike here, not everyone is allowed to attend a university. No, indeed; if his exam results aren't up to that level, he'll be told to attend a work school, for example. That would be a place where he'd learn to be a plumber, a landscape worker, a mechanic, or so forth. He might also be assigned to a teacher's school and become an inhstructor for elementary schools. Someone that's established himself as an academic dud or is plainly intellectually inferior doesn't get a pass to proceed to the high schools that lead to universities; they aren't allowed - perhaps subsidized - to spend several carefree years obtaining degrees in black studies, sociology, or another "discipline" that is patently worthless. No, sir, those countries don't waste their resources to that profligate extent. If we're to have Socialism, let's go all the way and make higher education truly that and only for those deserving of it.