Ever heard of price differentiation, is that what you allude to? Also, it's not like %2 was a small gain for stable growth. On a individual level 10.000$ per m

Ever heard of price differentiation, is that what you allude to? Also, it's not like %2 was a small gain for stable growth. On a individual level 10.000$ per month of activity, not counting 2 months vacation per semester, would be enough for a good enough private instructor. Certainly, tuition, as in schooling, is completely covered by tuition, so it's not completely fair to throw it all in one bag. That is, of course the billions can be taken into account in a mixed cost calculation, but that would delude the elitism, wouldn't it? I agree, subsidized gratis pro bono education should be possible, but it could never be costless. Now, what about the private tutors: Wouldn't one on one instruction be a remarkable improvement over huge, passive lectures? There is the problem of quality control, but from what I can tell, this does exist too to a lesser degree in academia. It can sway into the opposite direction even, if a research professor is too far out there to be helpful, for lack of better words. A lot of undergrad classes are taught by mere grad students. There are a lot of them. Wouldn't the dialog still far outdo the lesser quality content that is communicated, because the latter relies a lot on the students understanding anyway and the sooner that reaches a certain basic level of fundamental knowledge, the better? Edit: Meaning, fundamental knowledge that is enough to allow the student to judge the progress and to also study independently, knowledge that is fundamental enough, that less than world class understanding makes virtually no difference.