This tells me you are out of touch with reality.
First. Your standard of living is 100% based on the amount of resources you consume. Quality of life is directly corollated to energy. We consume some insane amount of global resources - you need a military to do that. Life sucks, get over it.
Education. You are correct. We spend stupid money on it, both pre and post high school.
Want college tuition to become reasonable? End student loans. Universities make upwards of 50% profit. You know what automakers make? Around 6%.
It's amazing tuition keeps going up, so we up the lending limits then tuition goes up again.
If you couldn't borrow $30k a year, you couldn't go to school. If you can't go to school... Then school either goes out of business or lowers its rate.
http://m.daytondailynews.com/news/ne...-for-tr/nSGkK/
"Public" School where the president makes 7 million a year, has a provided mansion and a million dollar office.
That's where your $135 million a year tuition is going.
Even the lower public schools. Why the big push for more teachers? Kids are getting worse and dumber. You talk about education overseas, maybe we should be like China? 8th grade is an auditorium with 100 kids and a teacher lecturing them. Bet they'd learn more than having 1 teacher to 14 kids playing best friend / surrogate parent.
I'm all for doing thing different and putting some logic into broken processes. "Throw Money at it" is never a solution.
Bitches need to do some Lean Six Sigma training.