Quote:I agree with you about not everyone should go to college. I do not think it should be a requirement but I do think it should be available to anyone who wants to learn.

 

I do not agree that it would become the new high school diploma. High school is in no way advanced or specialized in education. It is a basic primer of knowledge. Now an argument can be made the the way we teach the young or impart knowledge could use a total paradigm shift but college even at the community level is a pick and chose the course you want leading to a specialized degree down the road. I do not think providing this education for free in any way devalues it. What it would do is lower the barrier for entry. 

 

Lowering the barrier for entry in regards to businesses is a battle cry of the right wing and it's a good one. How could it be bad for education? 

 

It doesn't devalue education, it's the economic side I have issue with. We can't just magically make it free, what we would be doing is paying for it through taxation just like public education.

 

Now step back and look at how pathetic our public education system is and ask do we really want government to take over college the way it did public education?

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