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Sure it is. Plenty of nations understand the value of college education and they don't make people go into massive debt for it.
by ddingus 6y ago
Sure it is. Plenty of nations understand the value of college education and they don't make people go into massive debt for it.
- hnlurker 6y agoName the countries that fit this description that don't also have strict entrance criteria? Criteria that also nearly invariably come with severe caps on the number of students that can enroll in those curriculae. Want to "follow your passion" and become a trained lesbian dance theorist? Sorry, we're all full up on that.. As much as I hate the idea of free college, I for one would happily trade our American model for those European ones. We'd all be better off with fewer college graduates (or even worse, drop outs) in general, and from non-STEM fields in particular.
- pdonis 6y ago> Plenty of nations understand the value of college education It doesn't seem like many of them value it more than the US, and none value it all that much more: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_education_attainment https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_tertiary_... In the US, 44 percent of people age 25-64 have a college degree; only 6 countries have a higher percentage and the highest is Canada at 54 percent, which isn't that much higher. > they don't make people go into massive debt for it It is true that many other countries have free college education; however, as shown by the numbers above, this does not seem to have resulted in a larger fraction of their people getting college degrees.
- ddingus 6y agoPerhaps the numbers suggest a society with lower personal cost and risk exposure presents less incentive to get higher education. The more important discussion is how massive debt dilutes a lot of the value in the education. That debt is unnecessary.