[allmost]

Your point is valid. I lived it.

But,if I may ask what better money is spent than on the minds of ourselves. Abolish the NEA, send half the teachers to Canada where they belong. We need our intellects.

[21twelve]

I imagine some of our intellects aren’t going to college now because of the high tuitions. At the Univ. of Washington they are turning away local valedictorians (sp??!! - I ain’t one!) in place of more out-of-state kids because they can charge the higher out-of-state fees.

It isn’t about education to many of the schools, it’s the money.

[McGavin999]

This country has to get over the “everyone needs a college education” thing. Education is great, but indebting yourself to get one is insane. People used to get education, but they worked their way through college. Those are the ones who want an education so bad they are willing to do what it takes to get one and then they use the education they receive to actually accomplish something in life.

Education is like anything else, what you are given for free you don’t appreciate.