Right. Only people with money should get an education.

Because students have never “demonstrated more ability” because their parents were able to afford expensive test tutors.

Besides, “private student loans” would be based on an ability to pay. Guess who that leaves out?

Sure they have, but studying for standardized tests (and tests in general) does not take significant financial resources. A diligent student only needs a few review books and the internet to study for standardized tests.

Is it harder for poor students? Of course. But is it prohibitively harder for a smart, poor student to do well in school and demonstrate their ability? Absolutely not.

Because it is so easy for poor people to “lift them up by their bootstraps” surely explains why income mobility is so great in the US.

If they could “all learn from books”, I guess no one needs teachers.

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This is the reactionary right-wing Twitter take, but for every coach, there's computer science, engineering & biology students suffering under massive, unforgivable debt.

Yes, student loans need to go, but not so that people don't go to college. That should be free for undergraduates in today's economy, where you need high level ed. for what used to be done by people who barely finished high-school 30 years back.

I think university education also makes more intelligent, socially and self aware members of society. Even if it doesn't directly lead to a career in a chosen field, it produces better people who hopefully make better employees.

This is definitely not the case in 2019. Almost everyone has a degree and a lot of people demonstrate almost no ability to think for themselves.