Personally, I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Wisconsin is going after teachers. There is an assault on education from the right ranging from the Texas school board’s rewriting of history to demonizing the entire educational system. Higher education does not escape the right’s attention either. I heard someone from the Hoover Institute a couple weeks ago say that public supported higher education is not important because the education only benefits the person educated and not society at large. This was incidental to the topic being discussed, so no one challenged him on it.

Really? An uneducated populace is entirely neutral to a nation’s well being?