> In France, higher education is pretty much free ... Amazed to learn this, as a middle-class American with kids and a house -- my biggest expense, ten years o

> In France, higher education is pretty much free ... Amazed to learn this, as a middle-class American with kids and a house -- my biggest expense, ten years out of school, is still student loans. My parents had similar higher education and did not deal with this. Not trying to get into politics or anything. It is just weird.