> the idea that higher education should cost anything somebody has to pay it - whether it's the students themselves via loans, or via tax payers. > Harvard, f

> the idea that higher education should cost anything somebody has to pay it - whether it's the students themselves via loans, or via tax payers. > Harvard, for example so may be harvard, if they should so feel charitable, could pay for their student's costs via their endowment funds. But what about _every other uni_? Not to mention that the endownment's a private source of funds - you're just as well be asking why don't billionairs just fund more public costs?