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This is right. We used to all agree, as a society, that we would all benefit by people educating themselves, becoming then next generation of civil engineers,
by jimhefferon 9y ago
This is right. We used to all agree, as a society, that we would all benefit by people educating themselves, becoming then next generation of civil engineers, doctors managers, and maybe poets. But we no longer believe that, we believe that people should pay for it themselves.
- JPKab 9y agoI think that your viewpoint focuses on the people paying, but you are ignoring the people taking. It's not fair to ask people to simply pay, and not allow them to hold the institutions accountable. Universities are packed with dead weight professors, dead weight majors, and dead weight administrators who take advantage of the blind belief that a bachelor's degree in anything is better than nothing. The University of Florida got rid of its Computer Science program a few years ago, while expanding it's English department. Do you think that was a wise use of Florida taxpayer's dollars?
- robmass94 9y ago>The University of Florida got rid of its Computer Science program a few years ago, while expanding it's English department. That isn't accurate. There were boneheaded plans in 2012 to eliminate the CS department (but still have a program), but they were abandoned.
- geezerjay 9y agoNo other county in the world requires about twice the average annual income per year to cover the expenses of enrolling a single student in a university degree. When a college degree is so expensive, the problem doesn't lie in the university's revenue.