What are students actually paying for though? A diploma? Or an actual education. It sounds like you're making the case for the former. In that case, why even ha

What are students actually paying for though? A diploma? Or an actual education. It sounds like you're making the case for the former. In that case, why even have grades or work? Why not just give everyone a diploma after four years no matter if they did the work well or if they got drunk for four years and never stepped foot in the classroom? If the customer is always right, then this is what should happen. I'd argue that the customer is not always right. That in the case of education, they are paying for an education and not a diploma. By definition, they cannot always be right because education implies learning and learning implies failure and being wrong. After all, if you're never wrong, you're not learning. You already knew everything. That is hypothetical of course and not a real situation. Students are paying for an education and therefore they must be challenged, tested, and worked. And none of those things are guaranteed. They are all difficult. And none of those actions are safe. So the idea that they should be in some sort of safe space is antithetical to learning. If the universities bow down to the students and replace education with safe spaces of non learning, they are just a diploma mill now. The students learn nothing and the diplomas are meaningless. Instead, universities need to stand behind for the product they offer. They should not bow down to the stupid demands of students who are anti learning and want safe spaces and meaningless diplomas without learning. They should continue to educate and kick out such students that have no interest in learning. They should promote education at any cost. Otherwise they become institutions of meaningless association, places where students go to get drunk, party, and hang out. In other words, just like most high schools. This anti intellectual idiocy needs to be resisted and one way to do so is to have reasonable costs, ideally free. That needs to be regulated and subsidized by the government, but in the meantime universities themselves have plenty of options for lowering costs if the will is there. Otherwise, why don't these students just apply for fake diplomas from the internet? The end result is the same.