Posted on 06/05/2019 8:15:12 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Many of our left-wing radical politicians, a.k.a., snake oil salesmen, are pitching free university education for all. And it's not surprising: Teachers’ unions and university administrators might salivate at the thought. High school students about to embark on post-secondary education might think it is a wonderful idea. After all, Hollywood has portrayed the university experience as one of a continuous four-year party of sex, drinking, drugs and debauchery.
Would an aspiring student need to take those annoying SAT and ACT college entrance exams if universities were tuition-free? Government would now control the university system.
Who decides who would go to which university? Would the structure be similar to secondary education? Would students be relegated to universities in their area only? Would private universities exist? What about universities such as Harvard? Would the endowments continue to pour in from alumni or industry?
Would everyone be on a Pass/Fail system or simply state “present” like a former community-organizing Senator from Illinois and now uber-rich ex-president? Would each student select his/her desired discipline of study or would the government?
The McCourt School of Public Policy, Center on Education and the Workforce, Georgetown University, published a report in 2015, titled: “The Economic Value of College Majors.” The report's authors stated that over 35% of today’s jobs require a college degree. They admonish students with advice, too - such as, to choose the path to their futures wisely. Match their skillsets with the lifestyle they desire. Be clear with their decisions, and be careful of emotions that could interfere with that path.
Now, under a free university system, how would the curricula, professors, and experience match the needs of the new wave of students? Would business management still be a sought after major? After all, the next step is government to decide where you work.
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Free tuition, and a negative income credit to pay for room, board, and extras. That’s the ticket!
Look no farther than how much students learn in their free K-12 education to guess how much benefit free college really provides.
Parents, employers and the general public have so thoroughly consumed the Kool-Aid over the years that these proposals will be eagerly embraced.
All of the bad ideas are becoming inevitable.
Do they mean to do all the brainwashing for free now?
You get what you pay for...........
We need to admit that we lost a good portion of the battle of Conservatism. America is now a soft Socialist nation.
We would need an ObamaCare type law, oops I mean Tax so that the necessary changes could be implemented to cut Higher Education costs!
Think about all the fat in colleges. After all Harvard University's endowment is valued at $37.6 billion as of 2015. That would buy a lot of Free College..... sorry Harvard but you don't need an endowment!
What I’d like to see get accredited—and state schools would probably be the only ones allowed to blaze the way here—would be free or nearly free colleges that handed out the syllabuses then simply administered rigorous tests to determine mastery at a high level (otherwise they’d be devalued from the start).
Plenty of sources online and at libraries to learn on your own without cost. That’s what would really crush the current college scam.
I don’t care if parents still want to send their kids to expensive private schools—and pay for it themselves.
Just don’t do any more college student loans or grants. Let them or their families, or whoever else wants to, pay for luxuries.
This is the way to kill ‘Free College’! Use the ObamaCare model against them!
TANSTAAFL. The idea that the costs of college can be transferred to the taxpayer has one little flaw: the student is faced with a choice between paying off his or her own debt over 20 years or paying off everyone’s forever. The fond illusion that “the taxpayer” equates to “somebody else” usually disappears about the time that sticker shock sets in after that first paycheck.
Those who want free college also want Obamacare.
Where is Nirvana anyway?
Yes but the Colleges do not want ‘ObamaCare’ type take over of their higher education system. That’s what will kill Free College!
Oh, the colleges don’t want it, for sure. Unless they can make out like bandits, as the insurance companies did with Obamacare. E.g., they’d love a law making college mandatory.
Oh, the colleges don’t want it, for sure. Unless they can make out like bandits, as the insurance companies did with Obamacare. E.g., they’d love a law making college mandatory.
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