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Originally Posted by bizaro86
How much education do you think is a basic human right? I'm 100% on board with free public school, and my kids attend public school. But where do you draw the line at how much school everyone else pays for?
The student taking the Masters in Women's and Gender Studies wanted free tuition. How long should that last? Putting aside the specific degree, at some point you need to pay for your own life, and I'm not sure the rest of society should fund a Bachelor/masters/PhD/postdoc.
There's already a significant contribution from taxpayers to post secondary - making it free without limiting spots will just devalue it further as those who have no business being there figure there isn't any downside.
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If universities were securely funded despite the number of students they had they could fail students at higher rates making the degree hold more value. As it stands now universities don't fail bad students because they need their money. Making university more expensive would only ensure that it was pay to pass.
I would rather live in a world where everyone got more education even if it was for something I had no interest in, than for a world where wealthy people can pay for a piece of paper that says they are smarter. ( naturally this is a false dichotomy, but it stands as an example of how universities function when they are afraid to fail students for business reasons).