[CliffFletcher]

The problem with subsidizing post-secondary education even more is that it doesn't address the real problem, which is the skyrocketing cost. Why, as access and enrollment has increased, has the cost risen at twice the rate of inflation for three decades now?

With the technology we have today, we can deliver post-secondary education far cheaper than we do. Why do we need to cram 300+ students into a hall to listen to a lecture from a professor who doesn't especially like to present lectures, when the same content could be delivered digitally when and where the student wants? Why are we stuck in a model of delivering education that has scarcely changed in 100 years?

Universities and colleges are one of the only institutions to have resisted the innovation and disruption of technology. I can't see them holding out much longer. Let's use technology to dramatically reduce costs instead of using money to prop up an anachronistic system.