[bjc]

If you paid the full cost of your degree, more power to you. The issue is the massive subsidies paid via public university education and loans. It is one thing to underwrite the education of future doctors, nurses and, yes, teachers but it is a very different thing to broadly subsidize art historians, psychologists, ethnic studies, business, etc. An argument can also be made to underwrite through competitive scholarships the initial and advanced education of future scientists, linguists, psychologists, historians and even anthropolgists. The numbers of these scholarships can be readily pegged to the replacement needs for faculty members (of what would be a far smaller number of faculty positions). Anyone who wants to invest their own money in their own or their children's education in any area is of course free to do so.

[jazzlite]

Yes, it is a far different thing to subsidize the education of people we cannot do without, such as doctors, nurses and teachers, engineers and people who have the REAL skills required to keep us running..People such as plumbers and electricians. I am just looking at my own life and in the past year, the above mentioned folks are the people I have needed to keep my family going. And, what about farmers and our food producers? Instead, our colleges and universities seem most committed to turning out government “masters” who would shackle those required to keep our basic needs met. How about the schenanigans of the EPA which have raised the cost of everything for us, impoverishing us everyday of our lives, so they can more quickly usher in their socialist system with themselves as the masters. It is time to bring the educational institutions under control..It can be done if the people demand it.