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Learn to be a well rounded informed citizen in high school when it’s free. If you’re going to go $100k into debt, it had better help you get a job.

• gone35 8y ago
  > [student] debt I think this (more than even perhaps the Great Recession itself) is the determining factor in the 'crisis'... And probably a socioeconomic time-bomb to boot (from [1, caveat lector]): > [...] Both "solutions" to the higher education crisis from the conservatives and the mainstream liberal consensus are in fact not solutions at all. The right wants to give up on educating the working and poor classes after high school, whereas the liberal position has become increasingly dangerous to the economic future of the younger generation via student debt. I'm betting the next global recession will be student-loan driven. And with serious, non-trivial sociopolitical consequences (at least in the US). -- [1] Creston Davis, "The Education Impasse in the USA". Counterpunch. August 21, 2018. https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/21/the-education-impasse-in-the-usa/ https://www.counterpunch.org/2018/08/21/the-education-impass...