alt Hacker NewsAwesome. Now let’s lower the bar further and do it everywhere. And then let’s keep doing more until students can pay their tuition with a summer job, like they could when our elders went to school.
I’ll hold off on asking for higher education to be free, as the culture still pushes back on that. But a return to the former model would be most welcome.
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In the former model, which I also would love to back to, college was cheap because the government didn't keep inflating the price with huge loans, coupled with every adult in range telling kids that the HAVE to go to college and the more prestigious the better.
Get rid of government loans, bring us back to how universities used to operate, and education will once again be something you can pay for with a summer job.
All we're doing with these government loans is transferring the wealth of society to the universities.
>> pay their tuition with a summer job, like they could when our elders went to school.
or like it is currently for EU citizens in any EU country. Americans are getting ripped off from all sides.
Do we also return the facilities to the state they were in before, particularly the residential programs? College enrollment percentage? What about a near universal military draft for men?
Not that I think lowering the cost of education is a bad effort but appeals to some prior culture like they are apples to apples comparison is dishonest.
Won’t happen as long as the govt is giving out free loans, which is the driver of increasing tuition prices.
As far as I know, and countries where tuition is free entrance is restricted and the students do not expect to live the United States university lifestyle.
Free would be fine if we could expect actual return on the investment instead of extended high school, delaying adulthood, and channeling people from useful vocations within their grasp.
I'd like to see a future where a student can have free tuition but (with exception) is required do meaningful civic service work that benefits the community and country that is paying for tuition, ultimately graduating with zero debt if requirements are met.
Maintaining national parks? Helping support inner city? Tutoring and improving public education? Imagine having the majority of American college students contributing to these worthy causes AND getting a strong education.