If Education Is So Important, Why Isn't Congress doing Anything About It?

By golly, the National Memo had a good idea this morning. Something about how China defunded liberal arts degrees for college students which means that if a Chinese student wants to get such a degree, he'll have to pay for it himself. Boy, what if we could do something like that in America. Thing is though, right now, scholarships aren't based on the need for students in critical fields for the most part. In America, scholarships are reserved for the brightest and the poorest no matter what they want to study. But wouldn't it make sense to add the provision that all scholarships be reserved for those people provided they take the courses most needed by our society? I mean, if we really don't need more social workers, phys-ed teachers, or whatever, why train more? They'll only end up unemployed and living at home or flipping burgers and living at home. How about offering scholarships to anyone who needs one who has the aptitude in the fields where we need to compete internationally for jobs. Hey, if we needed buggy whip designers, then give scholarships for it. The rest can and should get scholarships to trade schools in the same needed fields, or pay for their own education. I look at a scholarship as a reward for doing or being something special. Well if you're led to a field we need folks to be in, isn't that special? Then why not give that reward for it. Ya know what? In the long run, it just might not cost more to do it this way. It would mean more funding up front, but it would surely mean much more in  income tax down the road. And for a lot more years than two or four or five years for the degree. Such a plan would accomplish everything we need to regain our edge in education and science and math, as well as innovation and entrepreneurship. Being educated, having a college degree, doesn't automatically mean you will be successful in your life. The right area of study can be as close to that automatic success as you're gonna find.