Description: Blue Scholar Foundation
Problem: Nearly everyone should gain a college-level education, for a variety of reasons, and not just as job training. We have gone too far in that direction. Society now mainly treats college as job prep, as something that should be expensive for the few who go on to receive big salaries. Because it is so expensive, only those investing in a path to those big salaries can justify it. That's wrong on many levels, not the least that it burdens and bankrupts so many while leaving so many more uneducated. At
It should be possible to enter the workforce while also continually and reliably progressing toward a complete education. Young people should not be faced with a largely irrevocable choice between work and academics. This is, largely, an artificial and false choice, reinforced in ways that no longer serve us now that alternatives are possible. We should all strive to be, and help others strive to be, well-rounded polymaths, well-versed in multiple realms, without unnecessary constraints and penalties for ch
Solution: The Blue Scholar Foundation works toward everyone achieving a college-level education, eventually, regardless of their starting situation, and generally without debt. This education should seem interesting, easy enough, and be inexpensive, flexible, and rewarding. A person should do this, and actively want to do this, because it makes them more interesting and a much better mate, parent, citizen, and contributor to society through work & support for others. The Foundation provides a platform, dire