I guess you could argue that in today's world you shouldn't have to move to a city to get a higher education.
But the truth is, even with improved remote offerings students will still flock to larger cities for their higher education.
The people remaining either don't want, need, or can achieve higher education and I don't see any problems with that.
This all assumes the stat is talking about people in rural areas vs people from rural areas.
I would be concerned if people from rural areas had largely less percentage points of higher education, but only if it was a very large gap.
Community and local bias toward lesser rates of higher education is expected. Both from the "my dad was a farmer, I'm a farmer too" stereotype and also the fact that income disparity/inequality between city living and rural living would result in a substantial gap when education costs are the same across the board.
That last point is something I have a problem with but honestly the attitude towards education spending in USA from the majority is very one sided. (My taxes shouldn't fund your fancy degree when I work in a factory - regardless of societal benefit I constantly receive.)
I guess you could argue that in today's world you shouldn't have to move to a city to get a higher education.
But the truth is, even with improved remote offerings students will still flock to larger cities for their higher education.
The people remaining either don't want, need, or can achieve higher education and I don't see any problems with that.
This all assumes the stat is talking about people in rural areas vs people from rural areas.
I would be concerned if people from rural areas had largely less percentage points of higher education, but only if it was a very large gap.
Community and local bias toward lesser rates of higher education is expected. Both from the "my dad was a farmer, I'm a farmer too" stereotype and also the fact that income disparity/inequality between city living and rural living would result in a substantial gap when education costs are the same across the board.
That last point is something I have a problem with but honestly the attitude towards education spending in USA from the majority is very one sided. (My taxes shouldn't fund your fancy degree when I work in a factory - regardless of societal benefit I constantly receive.)