If we want to tear down big industries...big education?

Yes?

Let's tear down "Big Education".
It's worthless and gobbles up billions and billions. Colleges lure your kids to take classes in topics that have no interest for employers. How many jobs are really available for art historians, comparative literature and dance majors? Sculptors?
BAs in psychology, sociology, women's studies? Yet, universities will be delighted to encourage these interests for upwards of 45K per year and even help you to take out loans to pay for this useless drivel. Then you get to join occupy Wall Street and blame the wrong institution!

If you'd have studied engineering or even nursing a job would be yours...you could even get the nursing degree at the local community college and have very little debt, but NO "Big Education" says you will be better off and have more cache with a degree in Medieval Studies or Sculpture.

Isn't that a lot of crap? You can sculpt in your free time and if you have talent maybe you can be an artist and a chemical engineer.

Universities have huge endowments but charge huge tuitions for the crap they sell. They have gigantic bureaucracies and minimal schedules. Plenty of profs teach two days a week for 30 weeks per year. Let's see that makes 60 days a year for nice salaries, generous benefits and prestige. They get every imaginable holiday off and all summer. The profs will argue that they do all this deep thinking and advance civilization with their research. Maybe the scientist and engineering professors do...the ones who teach philosophy, French and sociology, not so much. The sociology types probably kick civilization in the shins more than they help it to grow.

Down with Big Education!
Make them work 40 hour weeks and make them work 48-50 weeks per year. And most of all, pay them based on their results. That should cut tuition by 90% in plenty of areas of study.