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Originally Posted by ann ashtray
The whole university system is a joke. Do I think it should be "free", no...not necessarily. If you feel the need to get an education for A) the sole purpose of your own career advancement, or B) don't know how to educate yourself with such a wide array of tools made available to us (libraries, the internet) you might as well be paying for it.
Just a thought.
As of lately it seems like a big waste of time, anyways. Most college graduates are having just as much difficulty finding decent jobs (let's face it, most go to college as a means of furthering their career) as those that opt to just go straight into the work force without any sort of degree....only the latter isn't typically stuck with a large debt they'll be paying off until they are 45.
I just wish more teachers/parents would stress that college is NOT necessary in order to make a living...and any kind of living at that. The majority of richest people (at least in the United States) either never went to college period, or dropped out.
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It needs to be free to break away the disadvantages that expensive education traditionally gave only the privileged in our societies. It needs to be free so that our middle class and lower folks who work in our hospitals, schools, city governments, fire stations, police offices, jails, non-profits, churches, etc etc are all better educated and prepared for civil service which benefits our society as a whole. When higher education is one-sided, in only benefits the scumbags and the rich folks who don't even need the perks necessarily, and yet it leaves an underqualified fundamental work force of civil servants highly vulnerable to corruption. In fact, when education is expensive, these civil service jobs which higher education suits are often corrupt simply so the workers can pay for school!!
Public education is a right not a privilege. Perhaps it can be better regulated and organized to deal with drop out rates, I mean just because it is universally free does not necessarily mean university is right for everybody, some folks need to go to trade school or community colleges or certificate programs, but these all should be free and fully public, it only benefits the society to have a better educated population, that does not have to compete tooth and nail for its education! Its like the Apostle Paul sad, "If you bite and consume one another, we wary less you be consumed by each other!"
Our health care system is fucked up and expensive because doctors graduate with upwards of 250,000-300,000 in student loans, which even with a nice salary would take over a decade to pay of while still paying the bills. Where as in Germany or Sweden, doctors are content to make 80,000-90,000 a year, because their university education was entirely free and so they are not shackled with so much bitter debt. American doctors are taking out their debt on their patients for years, and it hurts our society and makes the both the career and the health care unaffordable..