Armchair marxist opinion: forgive the students debt, make the administrators pay more taxes. In all seriousness, though, there is a real sense in which student

Armchair marxist opinion: forgive the students debt, make the administrators pay more taxes. In all seriousness, though, there is a real sense in which students who go to college are being scammed, in this sense I pity them. Their money isn't going to better professors, who are still paid a pittance for a lifetime of devotion to their field, even in the sciences. It's going to the administrators, whose motives are not actually education, but gaming the already broken system of academia. In my eyes, this makes the case for socialized higher-ed even stronger. A system which incurs financial ills so great is , by definition, a market failure, one so vast that it begs the question why it is a market in the first place. It'd be much more prudent to pay for students educations if they show potential for success in the first place, rather than financing many of my college peers who now work in coffee shops as compensation for their $200k Anthropology degree. No system built on craftily selling economically useless degrees as an "investment in one's future" will actually provide any benefit to society. So what's to be done? First, Provide students with scholarships, or the like, to schools which limit administrative expenditures or those whose administrative expenses pale in comparison to the money they spend on qualified professors. Second, disqualify schools which do not produce a threshold percentage of net-gain employees - if a school has a track record of pumping out angsty coffee shop Lit majors, it has no business in taking taxpayer dollars. Last, provide outlets for students who aren't destined for a career in the sciences. Maybe trade schools that offer classes in academics alongside chances to become electricians or plumbers, both careers face workforce due to people's obsession with reading hundred-year-old books instead of doing something meaningful with their time. Rant complete