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You missed the point. "Free" education for everyone is the largest contributing factor in the inflation of the cost of degrees. Free education is a nice thoug
by kansface 13y ago
You missed the point. "Free" education for everyone is the largest contributing factor in the inflation of the cost of degrees. Free education is a nice thought, but you didn't propose any way to pay for it.
The only way your proposed system could work would be if the government required all degrees to cost no more than X$ or severely restricted the number of people it paid for. More realistically, we can stop subsidizing students past 5 or perhaps 10K$ per year.
- zackmorris 13y agoI see what you're saying. Reading it now, it hit me that government programs have to ask for budget increases, but colleges can just raise the price and be guaranteed the money because students can always get more loans. So this was actually the intention behind transitioning colleges from free to paid. It created the student loan bubble because there was no check on how much college could cost. To fix it, we could just do the reverse and make state colleges free with their budgets set by the government, substantially lower than they are now.
- TrainedMonkey 13y agoWith students that get bad grades being kicked out from the 'free' track. This might actually be workable.
- true_religion 13y agoI don't really understand the need for discussion here. Free education is done from the K-12 level. Its' done in many European countries as well. Is there any reason that the US government is special, and won't be able to handle a free university education without going bankrupt?
- kansface 13y agoYou don't send everyone to college.
- kansface 13y agoIt also occurs to me that in the US, k-12 is paid for by local governments via property taxes.
- truthteller 13y agoEntry into higher education is more competitive in most European countries...