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> If students had to pay the actual cost of their education, it'd be much higher, even in Ivy League schools. That seems really unlikely. The fact that it's ex
by glenra 16y ago
> If students had to pay the actual cost of their education, it'd be much higher, even in Ivy League schools.
That seems really unlikely. The fact that it's expensive to provide this exact bundle of services doesn't mean that's what would get provided without the subsidy. What's more likely is that the services that mean the least to the customers would get cut until the tuition was more reasonable. Without tax funding you'd get schools that were focused primarily on teaching. Like high school, but with more accomplished teachers.
- snotrockets 16y agoAnd then we won't have research. So the material taught will stagnate, just like in high schools. If we treat students as customers, then they want the best -- so to improve, the student-oriented university would hire teachers that are also great researchers, so they'd have something new to teach, that isn't taught by the competition. And that research is costly; and we come full circle to the research-oriented universities.