Posted on 10/08/2014 6:57:16 AM PDT by Buckeye McFrog
For decades, free high-school education helped strengthen the middle class and generate prosperity. So isn’t it time to extend the same thinking to college?
The idea might seem impractical, since college costs more than high school and higher education isn’t for everybody in the first place. Yet it’s also obvious that a high school education alone isn’t nearly as valuable as it used to be, which is why some researchers and policymakers are now studying ways to make college as accessible as high school for those who want it. College is free in Scandinavian countries and highly subsidized in much of Europe (snip)
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Yesterday Germany announces that college will be TUITION FREE for all.
Scarcely 24 hrs. have passed and the MSM is now starting the drumbeat to do the same here.
Which must mean it is on the Democrats to-do agenda and the handouts have gone out to the press.
Nothing is free. Somebody is paying for it.
Oh. Right. Beer.
Well, how is German education funded? Do they use tax subsidies? Generous donations? How? I would also add that regular university education is overhyped in the U.S. anyways. We don’t have enough technical or trade jobs. With the majority of trade jobs, you have a cheap tuition, and hardly a fraction of the debt. Then with a few years experience working the trade, you can sometimes be making over $100K annually. If people think they are above a lot of these essential, yet not so badly paying jobs, we are in serious trouble.
I attended public university and never had to take out a student loan. It helped I lived at home.
And of course in the 1980s, tuition fees and textbook fees were still quite reasonable.
Today, you have to be well-heeled to attend college. I’m not sure with all the inflation, the value is significantly higher today.
In the U.S. we would have to use taxpayer subsidies to make it “free” considering that much of the tuition that we see occurs even with large generous donations to given universities. We also have an imbalance in trade jobs, which are expected to be in higher demand. More people getting into trades might help balance tuition a pinch more, but time will tell.
The fre degrees will be worth what the student pays for it.
Just like today’s “high school diploma” is nothing but an attendance certificate.
Somebody is paying for it namely taxpaying workers.
and then what?
We could institute a job for student loan debt forgiveness program and just write off the debt for every year graduates are working.
Free tuition requires higher taxes. After the Obamacare fiasco, the public is not in a mood for a government takeover of student loans.
But that may well change if we face a toxic student loan debt meltdown.
First, if the Universities and Colleges become government services, their costs will ratchet upward and onward. Everyone working for them will be infected with the SEIU virus. There will be few limitations on spending.
Second, is Germany providing “lowest rate” tuition (i.e., zero) to foreigners and illegal aliens? Or will we have to stop with this plan?
Own a home?
Not for long...
For decades, free high-school education helped strengthen the middle class and generate prosperity …Actually, it was the preponderance of domestic manufacturing that created the middle class in the first place. And by saying this, the left is inferring that there is something inherently wrong with home schooling.
When it comes down to it, for most jobs, giving people the textbooks and testing them is all you really need. Education does not have to be that expensive.
I’m not opposed to having someone other than the student pay tuition.
I am opposed to the government becoming the single payer.
If the government becomes the sole payer of tuition, then the government becomes the sole decider who gets their tuition paid for, and that’s something we simply cannot allow.
The public colleges and universities are financed out of the state budget. Have been for more then a century.
Very few people go to private Ivy League schools. The public system has charged students to defray the cost of their education.
It was never free but it was affordable.
If the govt. pays it also says what can and will be and how its taught. :Ref public school system.
May be a subtle scheme to put more people in schools and cut down the numbers looking for the non-existent jobs.
More teachers, more union members and ultimately more tenure.
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