i think the gist is that if college is free then more people will go, if more people go then you have a populace which is better educated. if a country can make it work without too much of drastic change then i don't see why it shouldn't be free or at the very least affordable
Quote from: gatsby on February 23, 2016, 12:59:57 PMi think the gist is that if college is free then more people will go, if more people go then you have a populace which is better educated. But we already have """""""""""""free"""""""""""" education that everyone attendsIt's called public school and it is open to everyone from the age of 5 to 18why not just make that better, if the objective is simply to make the population "more smarterer"
i think the gist is that if college is free then more people will go, if more people go then you have a populace which is better educated.
But we already have """""""""""""free"""""""""""" education that everyone attendsIt's called public school and it is open to everyone from the age of 5 to 18why not just make that better, if the objective is simply to make the population "more smarterer"
Quote from: gatsby on February 23, 2016, 01:13:38 PMQuote from: Chief Among Sinners on February 23, 2016, 01:10:08 PMQuote from: gatsby on February 23, 2016, 12:59:57 PMi think the gist is that if college is free then more people will go, if more people go then you have a populace which is better educated. But we already have """""""""""""free"""""""""""" education that everyone attendsIt's called public school and it is open to everyone from the age of 5 to 18why not just make that better, if the objective is simply to make the population "more smarterer"kill yourselfYouTube
Quote from: Chief Among Sinners on February 23, 2016, 01:10:08 PMQuote from: gatsby on February 23, 2016, 12:59:57 PMi think the gist is that if college is free then more people will go, if more people go then you have a populace which is better educated. But we already have """""""""""""free"""""""""""" education that everyone attendsIt's called public school and it is open to everyone from the age of 5 to 18why not just make that better, if the objective is simply to make the population "more smarterer"kill yourself
Because it's easier to make it taxpayer subsidized than it is to make universities reel in their absurd costs.We already have taxpayer subsidized K-12 education. I don't see why people aren't bothered by that, too.
right. Public schools are already working on this to one degree or another.My high school offered an agriculture track, an auto mechanic track, and cooperated with the local hospital and community college to offer nursing training to Juniors and Seniors. I wouldn't mind increased spending to expand and diversify programs like these.
We already have taxpayer subsidized K-12 education. I don't see why people aren't bothered by that, too.
How exactly do we make universities charge less? Ask them nicely?
Quote from: Tsirist on February 23, 2016, 01:20:45 PMQuote from: Chief Among Sinners on February 23, 2016, 01:18:23 PMright. Public schools are already working on this to one degree or another.My high school offered an agriculture track, an auto mechanic track, and cooperated with the local hospital and community college to offer nursing training to Juniors and Seniors. I wouldn't mind increased spending to expand and diversify programs like these.Me neither, actually. We had some of the same. But we didn't have programs for many things people were interested in college for. Rather than transfer responsibilities from one to the other, why not focus on improving the existing the infrastructure for those programs?Because preparing laborers for the workplace has never been the responsibility of the higher education system.This notion that one "needs" college to live a successful life is relatively new. What I really don't know is why there is so little emphasis on learning trades today. It doesn't seem to have been such a problem in the past.
Quote from: Chief Among Sinners on February 23, 2016, 01:18:23 PMright. Public schools are already working on this to one degree or another.My high school offered an agriculture track, an auto mechanic track, and cooperated with the local hospital and community college to offer nursing training to Juniors and Seniors. I wouldn't mind increased spending to expand and diversify programs like these.Me neither, actually. We had some of the same. But we didn't have programs for many things people were interested in college for. Rather than transfer responsibilities from one to the other, why not focus on improving the existing the infrastructure for those programs?
Quote from: Mad Max on February 23, 2016, 01:27:59 PMHow exactly do we make universities charge less? Ask them nicely?One significant reason for rising tuition costs is the government's increasing willingness to subsidize them.
Explain to me why college should be """""""free""""""" please
