the big business of education

somewhere before or after or during all the mushy stuff i was pondering schools and the big business of education which i believe came up when i was watching the game and wondering if ucf was the second or third largest school by student body and i stumbled on to the financial world where i learned that UCF had an endowment (which is kinda like saying net worth for a business) of $55 Million in 2013... that's 577th on the list... #1?... Harvard, $32.33 Billion and #2 is Yale at $20.78 Billion and U of Texas 3rd at $20.45 Billion... running down the top 10 there is Stanford at $18.69B, Princeton at $18.2B, MIT at $11B, Texas A&M at $8.73B, U of Michigan at 8.38B, Columbia at $8.2B, and Northwestern at $7.9B... yes, Billions... in fact, the top 22 schools account for more than 50% of the total educational value in the US... the 1% lives everywhere, including in the educational institutions that give the children of the !5 the best opportunity to stay in and continue expanding the gap between the 1% and the rest of humanity... the numbers don't lie...

meanwhile, in other news, besides all the other people i mention with respect and admiration (and the occasional lust), i'd like to meet people like fritz wickie and vera rubin; if you know what i mean... intelligent, curious, and not afraid to explore ideas that might not be popular or approved of at the time... and i'd like to see all the girls who go to Harvard, Yale, and other braniac schools naked, but we can't always get what we want... i do try sometimes, but all i need is the air that i breath and love, love, love, you know, all we need is love... and air... and food and water... but i am cutting down lately... and how are you? (how educated and how much in debt, right?)... nude 1%-ers are welcome too... i have started screening for the one again, after all...

narf :)