Re: [Owner] [PhilosophicalM] Frudat Five May 10
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Vere true.? a great education can be acquired in most subjects from the public library.? The biggest problem we have today is that students are not ready for college when they leave high school
Marvin
The Morrill Act, a bill signed by Abraham Lincoln, dedicated two square miles of every public land township for funding higher education in public universities.? I attended a ¡°land grant¡± college in the 70s, and it was tuition-free. ? We all had to pay for room and board and supplies and incidentals, ?which was about $1000 per semester.? That was a great system; I could earn $2000 working in the mine during the summer and a few weekends for $3.57 an hour then.
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After the 70s the system fell apart; the university I attended, and other land grant colleges, now charge tuition to fund bloated administrations and football coaches, and students must take on debt to go to colleges.? Students majoring in communications, drama, political science and other easy majors never earn enough to join the middle class, and many of them spend five or six years to get their worthless degrees. ?
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I¡¯m in favor of land grant state schools providing a free education as far as tuition goes and doing away with mandatory fees for student football tickets, but totally free education, meaning room and board and beer is just subsidizing six years of play time.
Why not? Public education should be free and there are a lot of public colleges and universities. This approach seems to work quite well in Europe. There's really no need to force the underprivileged to have to struggle while other students don't have to.
Aloha,
Celeste
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On 5/9/2024 6:19 PM, David Smith wrote:
3.? Should the government offer free college to all students?
Yes.
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