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Roger Adolf Freeman (Freimann), ever heard of him?
Posted on: June 18, 2025 at 13:31:20 CT
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Roger Adolf Freimann was born in Vienna, Austria in 1904 to Jewish parents.
He studied and received his degree from Vienna University of Economics and Business (1927)
He emigrated to Great Britain (1939) and then to the United States (1940).
He served as an assistant to the White House under Eisenhower and was research director at the Institute for Studies in Federalism, and a special assistant to Nixon.
He also advised Reagan and worked closely with him.
Freeman disputed statistics that showed the benefits of a college degree, denied that it was the great equalizer, and believed that college should be reserved for a select few.
As early as 1961, Freeman was openly promoting the idea of raising tuition fees so that state and local treasuries would no longer have to cover the costs of education.
He criticized education desegregation efforts in The Wall Street Journal.
He believed that the countercultural movements of the 1960s, which led to campus protests and racial riots, were caused by an increase in welfare benefits.
Freeman blamed what he perceived as a left-wing intelligentsia working within the U.S. government who he believed were aligned with those who received welfare benefits, leading to larger and larger government budgets.
He said:
"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through (higher education). If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people. That's what happened in Germany. I saw it happen."
Some say his position on reducing federal funding for education were out of fears of educating the working class could be dangerous, and many of his ideas with Reagan is what led to systematic change in the 1980's and the rise of income inequality in the U.S. and student loan debt.
What are your thoughts on this? Has there been a war on academia since the 1960's? Has there been a rise in income equality? Were there many American's fed up with how the economy and how they have to stretch their dollar farther?
Do you feel like Trump won because there are a lot of people that were not happy with the economy and he connected better with the working class, particularly the uneducated working class?
Edited by KCT-BoneTiger at 13:34:28 on 06/18/25
He studied and received his degree from Vienna University of Economics and Business (1927)
He emigrated to Great Britain (1939) and then to the United States (1940).
He served as an assistant to the White House under Eisenhower and was research director at the Institute for Studies in Federalism, and a special assistant to Nixon.
He also advised Reagan and worked closely with him.
Freeman disputed statistics that showed the benefits of a college degree, denied that it was the great equalizer, and believed that college should be reserved for a select few.
As early as 1961, Freeman was openly promoting the idea of raising tuition fees so that state and local treasuries would no longer have to cover the costs of education.
He criticized education desegregation efforts in The Wall Street Journal.
He believed that the countercultural movements of the 1960s, which led to campus protests and racial riots, were caused by an increase in welfare benefits.
Freeman blamed what he perceived as a left-wing intelligentsia working within the U.S. government who he believed were aligned with those who received welfare benefits, leading to larger and larger government budgets.
He said:
"We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That's dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through (higher education). If not, we will have a large number of highly trained and unemployed people. That's what happened in Germany. I saw it happen."
Some say his position on reducing federal funding for education were out of fears of educating the working class could be dangerous, and many of his ideas with Reagan is what led to systematic change in the 1980's and the rise of income inequality in the U.S. and student loan debt.
What are your thoughts on this? Has there been a war on academia since the 1960's? Has there been a rise in income equality? Were there many American's fed up with how the economy and how they have to stretch their dollar farther?
Do you feel like Trump won because there are a lot of people that were not happy with the economy and he connected better with the working class, particularly the uneducated working class?
Edited by KCT-BoneTiger at 13:34:28 on 06/18/25
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