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> Don't want to offer your degrees to anybody who is willing to pay the price and can pass your tests? Then you are welcome to decline all government funding in
by otteromkram 3y ago
> Don't want to offer your degrees to anybody who is willing to pay the price and can pass your tests? Then you are welcome to decline all government funding including student loans.
What a horrible take on the topic at hand.
1. Pay what price? If it's free, then it won't matter.
2. Standardized tests aren't currently pass/fail.
3. Student selection isn't based on tests alone.
Under this proposal, why even bother having more than one public post-secondary institution?
Now that we only have one publicly-free college, the value of degrees from all of the schools that are fine eschewing government funding are going to skyrocket since graduating public college will be the equivalent of passing high school (in the US).
All quality students would flock to those private institutions and be content paying tuition knowing what a huge advantage they'll have in the workforce.
- fallingknife 3y agoThe value of a degree is based on exclusivity under any system. We can gatekeep on difficulty to pass and not on money. There is no need for a preselection/admissions process when courses can scale infinitely over the internet. That is a relic of a time where a lecture could only be given in a room with a limited number of seats. The only thing limiting degree issuance can be the ability to pass the classes.