Higher Education Should be Free For All!!!!!!!!!!! (claim, income, doctor)

[Wapasha]

Originally Posted by chielgirl

I'd go for it but only if people passed the entrance exam for college.
If you don't have the aptitude, you don't get free tuition.

We'd just have to remove money from the war chest to fund it.

We can start by demanding standards in K-12 education first. I'm sure we have four year college grads who operate at the 10th grade level.

[EinsteinsGhost]

Originally Posted by calibro1

I still do not understand why people are essentially saying that it's okay that tuitions are so far out of whack? Isn't there a better way?

What else do you expect from the brain washed and the brain dead?

[Katarina Witt]

Originally Posted by Wapasha

We can start by demanding standards in K-12 education first. I'm sure we have four year college grads who operate at the 10th grade level.

Are you serious? Do you think there are no standards?

[Roadking2003]

Originally Posted by calibro1

Or...how about we actually realize that we prioritize war and greed over education.

Instead of funding trillions to Afghanistan and Iraq only to have a failed foreign policy debacle and also instead of funding bailouts for Wall Street execs, we could help the middle class.

I just don't see any logic in stating that we shouldn't help reduce tuition.

Our nation is giving the finger to a generation in order to support an agenda that values war and screwing over people for money.

Yes, we should end all war spending. If we do that AND eliminate government funded education, then people would have more of their own money to SPEND EDUCATING THEIR CHILDREN.

Yes, out nation is giving the finger to a generation in order to support an agenda that includes all forms of government spending and waste.

And if you want to reduce war spending, send a note to Obama.

[EinsteinsGhost]

Originally Posted by Roadking2003

AND eliminate government funded education, then people would have more of their own money to SPEND EDUCATING THEIR CHILDREN.

And you really believe that?

[nononsenseguy]

Originally Posted by Dollymixture

Taxes.

So, it isn't "free", is it. Somebody else is paying for people they don't even know. Why should they do that? They shouldn't. They are providing education to somebody else at the point of a gun.

[Roadking2003]

Originally Posted by EinsteinsGhost

That pretty much tells all about the kind of nation we've become. Military service has become a tool for many to have access to college education. .

So, what's the problem with that?

[Roadking2003]

Originally Posted by EinsteinsGhost

Plus, students laden with debt make for good cheap labor.

Then they shouldn't choose to get "laden with debt".

[EinsteinsGhost]

Originally Posted by Roadking2003

So, what's the problem with that?

Several, for example:
1- It is an ideology grounded in fascism.
2- Promotion of such ideology guarantees reduced participation
3- And reduced participation guarantees debacle for the prosperity of the nation, although politicians stand to benefit from it.

Originally Posted by Roadking2003

Then they shouldn't choose to get "laden with debt".

See the points above.

[Roadking2003]

Originally Posted by calibro1

I still do not understand why people are essentially saying that it's okay that tuitions are so far out of whack? Isn't there a better way?

I don't think that college should be free outright. It's simply not feasible. However, I think it's not feasible for those trying to create a better society, our future doctor's lawyers, teachers, administrators, etc. to have wages stagnate and yet be more debt. It doesn't seem right. It seems off.

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The best way to lower education costs would be for YOU to start a school and find a way to deliver the services cheaper. You are certainly free to do that in this country.

And by the way, millions of us have paid our own way through college without incurring debt and without rich parents.