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Originally Posted by jammies
Higher education should be free to the student. We should be aiming for 70-80% of the populace being university educated and another 10-20% having gone through trade schools. In the long run, education pays back society far more than it costs.
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I would argue that we need a much higher percentage than 10-20% going through trade schools. The economy still needs people to build things and the fine arts, political science, theoretical hard sciences will not provide much help in that matter. In a manufacturing, resource extraction, construction environment you will need far more trades people than engineers, managers, documentation professionals to efficiently move the product. All having 70-80% of the population go through university does is have more general studies graduates serve burgurs and push brooms.