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.