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Originally Posted by rubecube
Okay, but if college is your thing for legitimate reasons, the cost of college shouldn't be a barrier.
This entire paragraphs is a mess of anecdotal evidence and pure speculation.
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Well, yeah, it was just intended to be examples of people who shouldn't have to pay for other people's college tuition. There are plenty of examples of people who would provide more value to society by investing in other things than college and be better off themselves. College makes a big difference in middle class cubicle jobs and certain professions, but that can be a miserable existence for a lot of people. Also the job market for young people seems to be moving away from a lot of those types of jobs. Maybe kids don't want to grow up miserably reporting to their cubicle every day?
I started in Engineering, and I can't for the life of me figure out anything anyone could get out of that program that would make them more worldly or could get anything out of it other than spending 8 hours a day doing math and physics. I am not sure why that is seen as a right, but other trade type work should be paid for by everyone?
12 years of school is enough for a lot of people. Free college would probably just put more pressure on more people to go that probably shouldn't. Not to mention that it would lead to having to find more professors and teachers and probably further water down who is teaching in colleges.