[SeekAndFind]

Yet, somehow, the cost of that phone is a tiny fraction of not just the cost of my first phone, but also the combined costs of everything it replaced -- and will soon replace. It literally saves me thousands of dollars and fits in my shirt pocket, compared to the square footage necessary to store all the antiques it has made obsolete or redundant.

By way of comparison, in the same time frame, college tuitions have outpaced inflation tenfold.

[chopperman]

All electronics are getting cheaper and better. If you want a cheaper education, do it online.

[wastedyears]

Some of us still like real books and CDs.

[AppyPappy]

What an irrelevant question. The two have nothing to do with each other.

[tacticalogic]

How much of the college tuition increase is due to the “dumbing down” of public education and forcing colleges to assume the job of teaching kids stuff they were supposed to know before they got there?

[I want the USA back]

Tuition is high because it’s high only for rich White kids who can pay full tuition. It’s really not high for downtrodden, underpriveleged, have-nots. Cell phones are low because they are low-priced, and the cost is spread over all the people who pay for their phones.

Both are redistribution of wealth. Both are wrong.

[Mr Ramsbotham]

You can’t get a degree from an cell phone, but a motivated person could probably get an education.

[Boogieman]

It’s not sensible to compare the price changes of products to the price changes of services. For products, you can find cheaper materials, parts, more efficient manufacturing and distribution, but for services, at the end of the day, you still have to pay enough to convince another human being to get off their duff and do what you want. The tuitions are inflated, but this is not the right way to highlight that.

[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.

[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.