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I'm sure most of you can relate to this. People in this country talk about potential monopolies such as Wal-Mart or any huge business of that nature.
Although these businesses are big and have that potential, there is one that holds a monopoly over all in this country and it is allowed to do so. The collegiate institution.
You pay exorbitant amounts of cash for a number of years to attain a piece of paper stating you are competent enough in a field to make a comfortable living while paying off college loans in the tens of thousands if not more.
Some of these people who obtain these degrees shouldn't be getting them but do so as to the circumstance of rich and/or affluent parents or family members but I won't go into that so much.
My WI involves changing the way the collegiate institution runs in the U.S. and having a system based off of the other world systems involving standardized testing to separate the have's and the have not's.
The higher scoring testers could go into fields such as science, upper management in business and politics while the others go into trade schools to learn a profession in blue-collar trade.
Replacing the huge costs of college could be free education under a type of contract that the person being educated must fulfill certain obligations and duties.