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World population is going to 9 billion by 2050. There are plenty of people in the world who need an education.

• onlyrealcuzzo 7y ago
  The delta of people that can afford an education looks like it will be negative, though. So unless some government (or group of wealthy individuals) sets up a philanthropic fund to educate the world, the outlook is bleak.
  • melling 7y ago
    Education used to be cheap. For some reason, it has outpaced inflation for the past 40 years and created the current problem. We could simply try to return the product we had in the 1960’s.
    • onlyrealcuzzo 7y ago
      Historically, dating back to the origins of Oxford, one year's worth of tuition cost 50% of median wage, but one year's worth of books cost 2 years worth of wages, and one year of board cost 5 times median wage [1]. Anyone can take MIT and Harvard classes for free online. A quality education is basically free. Community colleges cost less than 1/2 of minimum wage per year. Just because people are spending more on education doesn't mean education is more expensive. [1] http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html http://medieval.ucdavis.edu/120D/Money.html