Unfortunately that isn't really up to us, since in our society you have to work to survive until you die or retire. Until having no job means a livable lifestyle, most people have to consider real dollar values when considering education.
No. People are free to associate with whomever they wish. Just as Mozilla is free to appoint an anti-gay CEO, those of us who disagree with that direction are free to go elsewhere when we choose to contribute to an open-source project.
Your colleges will only produce successful people in the sense that success can be directly correlated with income. There would be no point in doing anything else. Do you think that income-generating activities are the only purpose of education?
Much like how slave owners worked the cotton fields themselves, with the superficial detail of the work having passed through the body of a slave first.
I don't know anyone who gets free money for college, except for people who inherit their money or have rich parents. I feel like this is a really central part of your argument, and it doesn't hold water. Every cent we go into debt has to be paid back with interest, and the students who have to foot the bill have zero input in the hiring standards of the companies we have to work for when we graduate.
I think trying to save money by cutting benefits to underpriveliged people is extremely wrongheaded. That money is an investment, it's not just set in fire and wasted. (For that, see the vast taxpayer subsidies we hand out to telecoms and dirty coal companies..)
I didn't even think you were talking about grants. Are you saying grants are responsible for high tuition costs? Without grants, the gap would have to be made up in student loans. What good would that do? It would simply make students assume a higher debt burden to get the same education that society demands from them.
Gonna jump in here -- what makes you so sure it's grants rather than the way college loans work?
I haven't done the numbers but I suspect there's like 10x as much tuition coming from loans as there is from grants -- wouldn't that make grants a tiny portion of the problem?
Different Universities exist for different purposes; often times multiple purposes at once. You can't run a research and educational system without administration. But as a student, I don't see gleaming new facilities or well-paid professors with nice cars. I see everything is crap, the professors are unhappy/underpaid, and the students are depressed and going into huge amounts of debt to pay for all this. Where's all this money going? Who are the ones getting rich from our future?
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