WHAT? We pick up the tab for kids we don’t know? We are expected to educate a bunch of slackers who want to study “Buddhism”…i think not. You have to give me a better reason to “invest” my hard earned tax contribution.
Yeah, that’s what it means to be part of a society. You already pay tax dollars for a military to kill people you don’t know. You also pay for the primary and secondary public schooling of kids you don’t know.
What precisely is wrong with studying other world religions? The reason you invest in other people’s education is because a more educated society makes for a better society. It leads to more informed decisions in life and in the polls.
Government funding and student loans are the reason for high college and university tuition.
If colleges and universities had to compete for students…tuition would would be dramatically lower.
As it is currently, yes the government student loan program is part but only part of the reason why the cost is so high. However, that is only because universities are run by people who have no incentive to care if the costs are too high. They see money coming in with hardly any strings attached to them. The strings are attached solely to the student, so the university doesn’t have to care how well the student does as long as they attend for a year or so. The administrations essentially run public institutions as for-profit corporations, when public institutions should be non-profit. A ton of jobs now require a college degree, regardless if it is related to the job or not. They use it as a litmus test to see if a person is smart enough for the job.
Compete how? The only thing that the competing as done to the university system is make a joke of higher education. Campus’ now cater to students’ more baser and crude tastes of pleasure rather than the quality of the education. Because the financial position of the universities has been compromised by a leviathan administration and severe cuts of funding at the state level for almost 30 years, they are now forced to commercialize universities. They now spend more money on golf cart-like buses so the lazy don’t have to walk across campus. They now spend more money on attractions that facilitate the stereotypical party culture. And they now spend more money
Ever heard of applying for a scholarship?? Or don’t they offer that anymore? Lots of MOTIVATED kids work their way through college. It provides valuable work experience that will put them ahead on the job applicant line.
I had two scholarships for undergrad and a paid TA job with a tuition waiver for graduate school and still came out with lots of debt. What you speak of as a solution is hardly adequate at all.
Drop outs should not have been college at all. They just take up the space that the MOTIVATED need.
You’re assuming they were never intelligent or motivated to begin with. I have good friends who struggled with poverty and taking care of their relatives at home. I’ve also worked with plenty of great students in college as a TA who faced these same troubles. The financial burden is too great, and so are their full-time jobs in order to graduate. I’ve seen too many students drop out because of these exorbitant costs, and as such they are robbed of better opportunities in addition to those around them being robbed of their untapped potential as well.
Sure working might provide valuable work experience while in college, but more often than not it also causes more people to drop out. If someone wants the work experience while in college, they should only have to work solely because they desire that experience; not because college costs cuts into the money they need to feed themselves or take care of their sick relatives.
Oh…come on…Have you seen some of the absolutely useless majors some people are trying to get jobs with today?
Anthropology??? Photographic arts? Social Sciences? Graphic Design? Physical Education? Liberal Arts?
There people are going to college for fun…
Physical education people actually do well if they go on to graduate school. Anthropology majors do well to do the same and to go abroad. Photographic arts can be highly profitable with the proliferation of media we have today. The social sciences include economics, which I struggle to see how that is useless. Graphic design is also highly marketable. And liberal arts education, while a difficult path to follow, is not useless.
