If you think that we have anything resembling a healthy market of affordable education, I'm afraid we're not going to agree on much of anything. The point isn'

If you think that we have anything resembling a healthy market of affordable education, I'm afraid we're not going to agree on much of anything. The point isn't about whether colleges are there for education or not, the point is that if you have to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars and years of your life you should get a return on that investment. The idea that people should go enormously into debt to become educated for the sake of it is crazy. If you want to educate people for the sake of society, then get society to pay for their education. Until then, people need to make rational choices about what for many of them is the biggest financial commitment they'll make.