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Originally Posted by Red Slinger

What an odd thread.

There are basically three arguments going on simultaneously:

1) The value of education
2) The supposed 'entitlement' culture of Quebec
3) The objective and practicality of civil disobedience

If nothing else it is outing the capitalist pigs and the commie scum and pitting them in a pitched battle based on ideas that were likely originally planted in their post-secondary educations.

I do wonder who is going to pay for the hospital bills for the protestor and cop that were injured. I also wonder who will pay for the damages to vehicles and property. Lastly, I wonder who will pay for the police resources used during this latest riot, which, I assume is probably close to about $70 per protestor, give or take. Fortunately for me, I don't live in Alberta anymore so these 'clean up' funds won't be coming from me (this time). I suspect that some of the protestors weren't students at all but rather "professionals" in the field of shat disturbing.

I would never argue with the value of some education, I would argue with the value of all education.
It makes perfect sense that society benefits from all its citizens being able to read write and perform basic intellectual and academic tasks.

It also makes perfect sense that a society benefits from a number of professions, doctors, engineers carpenters etc and it is in societies interest to subsidize them.

It makes no sense to say that because a doctor is useful that a communications or English lit major is equally of benefit to society and that we should subsidize them.

It also makes little sense to arbitrarily decide that all degrees should be 4 years long, the less useful least academically rigorous ones are probably at best 2 years work, are viewed that way by employers and should not be covered by loans or grants, they should be seen for what they are, a hobby.

Universities should be changing to encourage flexible part time studies as the norm, and a lot of what they teach should be realistically seen as being not that important to either the student or the society and priced accordingly.