These things are fun to compare for leisure, but no arguments or prescriptions can be made from a comparison like this. Business opportunities, including those

These things are fun to compare for leisure, but no arguments or prescriptions can be made from a comparison like this. Business opportunities, including those represented by listed public companies, provide the majority of motivation for higher education. Furthermore, unlike the stock market, there is no direct way to inject funds into higher education and expect returns: each student is unique, and their reasons for taking on debt or working toward scholarships are related to the returns they expect when they reenter the market. Taken to the extreme, treatment of higher education as a commodity investment will encourage diminishing returns.