If someone you know is thinking about going to university, tell them to pause and think carefully. Universities today aren’t just places of learning. They’ve become environments where one way of thinking dominates. Certain subjects are especially heavy with ideology, and those who question it often feel isolated — socially, academically, even professionally. The program that they teach is carried by the graduates beyond the university into world of work. The institutions have been infiltrated. It has permeated form the universities in the 1960s to the schools in the 1990s. Cultural Marxism is now the underlying ideology in schools in the west. Wokism, critical race theory and trans ideology are the pre-requisits of acceptability. We can all see the effect that woke ideology is having on western society, Kier Starmer being one of it’s most devoted followers. At the same time, the value of a degree is collapsing. AI is already replacing the junior roles that once absorbed graduates. And with more and more people going to university, there is an oversupply of “knowledge workers,” while essential trades like plumbing, electrical work, and skilled crafts are under-supplied — and often offer a far more secure route to financial independence. There is another path. Start a business. Learn a trade. Apprentice with someone who creates real value. A young person with ambition can learn a lot in the real world. Whatever money they were planning to invest in their education could be investing into a business. They may succeed, or they may fail, but either way they will learn more than they would ever learn at university. The real world of consequence is a harsh teacher, but it is the most effective one. It teaches reality, not theory. The truth is simple: you can ignore reality for a time, but you can’t ignore the consequences of reality.