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Originally Posted by nfotiu
Should the public pay for everyone to take as many degrees and graduate degrees as they want?
You have to draw the line somewhere? Up until the kid is of legal age seems like a good enough place to draw that line.
Some improvements to financial aid should be made to increase accessibility, but college in most parts of the US is pretty accessible to any students who want to go and doesn't have to be nearly as expensive as many in this thread claim.
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Yes, but where does the line get drawn? In recent times the line has been high school education (grade 12 in most places). It wasn't that long ago that a good chunk of society didn't graduate high school. In the meantime, the western world has evolved from being more manufacturing based to information based. Also, more and more jobs that required a human to perform them are transitioning to be automated.
I think free 2 year trade school or junior college certificate (2 year program) may be a reasonable bridge for the next couple decades but eventually we'll likely need our population to be more and more educated to keep up with our changing economy.