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The fact that it being free is used as an argument about its low quality is the most American thing I've read in a while.
by j_maffe 2y ago
The fact that it being free is used as an argument about its low quality is the most American thing I've read in a while.
- ConradKilroy 2y agoThank you for stating this. Its annoying to hear free education = bad in all subtle forms.
- antisthenes 2y agoIt's even more annoying when hearing it about health care.
- renewiltord 2y agoAnd it's even more annoying when people use it to say that open source is bad.
- linotype 2y agoWell this kind of comment didn’t take long to surface on this post. Ooof.
- lotsofpulp 2y agorenewiltord did not claim education provided at CCSF is low quality because it is free. However, the barrier to entry to a higher education entry is commonly used as a proxy for the quality of the student coming out of the higher education institution.
- Rizz 2y agoSomeone who is good at learning can just learn for free, only someone who is not confident in their abilities would pay for the name of a college attached to a degree (with likely less actual skills transferred, because paid colleges depend on throughput, not on results). The actually good students at paid colleges are the ones who got a academic scholarship, i.e. free like community college.
- renewiltord 2y agoYou're right and I read your comment history and really enjoyed the fact that you often correctly comprehend other posters who others pile onto. Pretty interesting about language comprehension. Love to see it.
- Apocryphon 2y agoAre you even replying to the right poster
- j_maffe 2y agoThat's an even more American proxy to use lol