Should Higher Education Be Free/Mandatory?

@Five_Tailed_Fox Said

The main reason a lot of people don't go to college is the lack of money, not the lack of intelligence or the willingness to work hard.

I've seen a lot of people that were in college simply to goof off, get drunk and have sex and such, but they usually didn't have any problem getting into college. Raising mandatory test scores or tuition fees or whatever would just harm, to an even greater extent, those that do wish to continue their education.

@raditz Said

Getting more people to go to college will just make the diploma they do receive worth less.

@Leon Said

So you are opposed to people learning? I would think the more people are educated the better.

@raditz Said

If driving down wages are a good thing, sure.

Simple supply and demand. The more there is of something the less valuable it is (unless the demand for the product/service increases accordingly). The more people with a degree, the less those degrees are worth.

@Leon Said

So you are for creating a society of classes?

@raditz Said

There will always be classes in society.

@Leon Said

Sounds like you are encouraging it though, rather than accepting it.

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Besides it doesn't make sense. Jobs aren't created for degrees. Degrees are created for jobs. So it wouldn't matter how many people are educated or not, the same number of jobs will still be there.

@Electric_Banana Said

A two year degree will land you behind the counter of a Burger King getting yelled and laughed at - Definitely not worth a 15 grand loan nor the headache of getting chased around for years after by debt collector's who don't understand that Whopper Floppers just don't make the same amount of money as a doctor or an attorney.

College should be just as free and public High School.

The only reason for making it pricey is to raise it above the heads of the already poor so that the competition for good jobs isn't as fierce.

The same type of people who want to limit the competition also don't want it free because it would raise thier taxes.

@boobagins Said


That being said, it's funny that you have this thread. Actually there has been a significant movement by universities to make education free. MIT and Harvard are both offering free GRADED courses and are in the process of setting up a non-for-profit organization that wants to make their classes available online for free for anyone that wants to take the class. Brown university, Stanford and a few others are doing the same thing except they are going for setting up a profit organization that will have free classes to the public but is supported by donors. MIT has been doing free graded classes for years but only now is it really taking form and more and more are on the bandwagon for free higher education.

@raditz Said

How am I encouraging it?