Cell Phones and College Tuition (Why are cell phones getting cheaper and better but not college?)

American Thinker ^ | 10/10/2012 | Steve Baker

[dalereed]

the people thay hire to roast students brains into useless mush keep getting higher!!!

[Da Coyote]

If one removes the few percent of scientist/engineers from our colleges, and also removes the even fewer percent of lib arts profs who can do something else besides write and teach incoherent drivel, we are left with a vast hoard of talentless do-nothings who could not hold a position at McDs.

These tenured nothings consume vast quantities of your money...and pee it away.

Get rid of tenure, get rid of 90% of university departments, and watch what happens to costs.

[volunbeer]

The main reason for tuition increases was government intervention. When politicians tried to outspend one another on higher education and increased the availability of student loans the costs shot through the roof. The quality and value of that education decreased.

John Stossel did an excellent show about this and I would recommend it if you could find it on youtube.

[SeaHawkFan]

Yep, wgu.edu

[AppyPappy]

My club gives a $2500 scholarship every year and I don’t think race is even on the form. It’s more a matter of too many people chasing scholarships.

[rmlew]

It is not a fair analogy. There is not education equivalent to Moore's Law.
That said, the price of education should not go up more than twice the rate of inflation.