Posted on 04/11/2016 1:03:32 PM PDT by pabianice
Free college isn’t worth spit. I’ve seen the kids going to college for free. “Cs get degrees!” is the mantra.
I agree with the author to a point. I want my country to have an educated populace. But there is typically motivation behind this sort of demand.
Why aren’t they interested in the skyrocketing costs of college? And what is the true ‘cost’? Free food and housing? So in a round about way, mommy and daddy still pay for everything unless you don’t pay taxes.
Our govt is corrupt. Giving them more money to mishandle is NOT the way to fix things. Just like with Health Costs, has anyone asked why it costs so damn much to go to college instead of simply demanding more ‘freebies’.
Why can’t we hold people in “Involuntary Servitude”?? it worked for Obamacare.
Clearly, this individual wants to enslave his professors. One cannot possibly have a right to another person's labor.
Free higher education would take the burden off students (and non-students)
Horsefeathers. Somebody has to pay for the infrastructure of the university. That burden is currently borne (voluntarily) by the students and alumni. Who does this simian moron think would bear the burden if not the students and alumni? Despite his rhetoric otherwise, this evil thief wants to enslave the entire country, not just his professors.
He should be tarred and feathered and ridden out of town on a rail.
“If it’s gonna be free then no degrees courses should be offered that do not fit a JOB description!!!”
Exactly. I was thinking the same thing. No women’s studies, sociology, African American studies, liberal arts, etc. Just specific careers. Law, medicine, etc. Everything else should be vocational.
And Erika Civitarese you’re distributing your income to pay for these down trodden college students? Or do you just mouth off? No one is stopping you paying for the tuition of others.
Think about it
From Elementary (ust'a be (rightfully) called Grammar) School up through college ... young people attend a building where someone talks and you read out of books and the result is supposed to be an "education"
In times past, that education prepared you for real life ... reading, writing and speaking so you could be a productive (and interesting0 member of American social structure ...
buying and selling and using numbers correctly ...
inputting information about the world around and outside of you to give you a sense of what the world is ...
And the school never, never, never EVER interfered with Dad, Mom nor God !
Look at the nation our forebears built !
And all it "cost" was the necessary requirements to feed and house (a) teacher(s) with a little left over ... a building and the needed heating elements in the winter
Did he ever consider going to a less expensive college?
Of course not.
I counter with: perhaps you should move to his home country and take advantage of "free college"
+1
“FREE” anything = slavery for those that work for a living.
Why should “college students” have a right to demand a portion of my productivity?
What makes you think this pathetic dweeb can handle four nanoseconds in the Marine Corps?
College is not free, no matter what laws are passed. She just means that she wants somebody else to pay for it.
And to pay for her housing and food too.
What kind of person has so little dignity and sense of self that she seeks complete dependence?
I wonder what Erika Civitarese is majoring in.
I wonder what this snowflake is majoring in, “Transgender Barista Studies”?
Change High School from 4 to 6 years.
Teach a real High School curriculum in the first 3 years and a solid college curriculum in the last 3 years.
Cut out ALL the worthless crap courses that gain students nothing.
Expel troublemaker students permanently...
Outlaw the leftist teachers unions...fire all bad teachers.
Hire better teachers who can teach both sections... keep the whole thing on the same old High School campus and add on some space if needed.
Students can elect to go 3 years and get a HS diploma or 6 years and get a BA. Either choice the same price for the student 0.00 This should be doable with only modest increase in school taxes IMO... so long as reasonable people make the fiscal decisions and cut out the waste. Hell, let me do it and I’ll bring it in at a lower cost than before the change.... the amount of wasted money in education is staggering!
Save tons of dough.
I say why not!?
So this brat wants the guy spreading hot tar on a roof to pay income tax so he can go ahead and buy a book he can access for free anyway, and so illegal aliens can get a free college degree.
I guess we will have to spend 400 posts ripping it to shreds instead. :-)
No, it isn't. And saying that it is doesn't make it so.
We live in a society wealthy beyond the wildest utopian dreams of only a century ago. Education is free. Public libraries are abundant. Internet connections are paid for by the community. There still is a cost, of course: it's in the work necessary to employ those priceless resources in learning. Learning will never be free. But education is.
What is not free is the diploma, the formal certification that the student has endured a set of classes with minimal or better performance. If you want the sheepskin, you pay for the sheepskin as your parents and their parents did. But don't whine that education is being withheld. All you have to do is grasp it. And that, in the entire history of humanity, has never been true as it is today.
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