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I knew nobody would bother arguing that education is, in and of itself, a net benefit over its cost. Much easier to be outraged over minutiae and tangents; if you accept that education should be free, then the numbers behind who goes to university, community college and trade school are incidental. These same arguments were made against universal grade-schooling back in the day, and were equally misguided then: we live in an increasingly complex world where high-school education is not adequate to the needs of business and government, so it will end up costing us more not to ensure universal higher education than it will to work towards it.

If the idea that somebody, somewhere, might waste a dollar they didn't earn makes you apoplectic, by all means continue with your anecdotal stories of how you made it thru school cleaning toilets and winning wet t-shirt contests. I'm sure your experience applies universally to everyone, so kudos on finding that unanswerable argument.