Feel the bern, suckers.
Just what America needs. A bunch of very low intelligence, low information “snowflakes” walking around waving diplomas, taking “selfies” and “hookin’ up”. Great.
Liberal indoctrination paid for by those who disagree.
Points for correct use of “harebrained.”
Get rid of prima-donna professors. Get rid of campuses (campii?). Get rid of textbooks with inflated prices. Put all the information online. Go back to $50.00 per hour tuition. Your parents’ basement can be your “safe space.” Graduation ceremony in your back yard. Graduate in a year or two. You certainly won’t learn any less than is being learned now.
Hopefully the interwebs will get this straightened out in a few years.
Why take basic College Physics from anybody besides Feynman?
Free educations can be the most expensive of all because all the money saved getting a free education can be dwarfed by all the time and money spent getting a real education thereafter.
What these pinheads don’t realize is, by the time they get around to giving them “Free College” it will be too late for most of them to get it.
I guess they think the Bernie has a magic wand. No surprise, they are all delusional.
I am not sure that college is valuable. It can be very expensive. But the value difference between a virtually free online or community college and one you spend $60,000 a year for seems to be dubious. Now with Khan Academy and other online free programs, some even from top colleges, its clear that the cost and availability of education is not the difference between a good job and a hamburger flipper.
The reality is that the college does little to change a young person into something better. Several surveys show that college graduates make more than those who don’t graduate. But that does not explain Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerburg. All coming from middle class homes and becoming filthy rich without a diploma. The reality is that they all got into selective colleges. And its the selection of colleges which picks the creme from every class that dictates success. These kids were going to be successful. The college did not make them better. They simply identified the good ones.
Also, colleges depend on two other things to sway the surveys. They take in 18 year olds, and they graduate 22 years. For the most part those 4 years of sitting around drinking, matures students. So they do come out more mature. And the fact that they hang with mostly intelligent friends, allows them to figure out their next steps of cleaning up their resume, dressing up and showing up on time to their first interview. They speak well and know what to say.
And thats pretty much it. If you take the bottom half of a class or even random kids and send them to Harvard as a class, instead of those highly selective kids, you will find that they don’t do much better than the norm. Additionally, if you take those Harvard kids and send them to community college as a class, they will get out of college and excel. Harvard, itself, is doing little more than selecting the good ones.
It’s WELFARE. Nothing more. Nothing less.
If students are in fields where they cannot earn enough of a living to pay for their college, they don’t need to be in college.
I paid for my college by working as a door-to-door salesman. These students don’t deserve anything more than me.
I would not mind States having free or nearly free college tuition at State schools __ IF __ there were rigorous entrance requirements to get into the college and __ and IF __ the student were required to keep up high academic standards every semester to continue getting free tuition. The student should still have to kick in some for books, living expenses, etc.
However, this would never happen as it would not be ‘fair’ for students who less academically inclined.
Yeah. Sounds like a great idea if you can get the teachers and professors to work for nothing.
Yeah but his “Free College” idea sells. America has entered into the national dividend phase of its existence. We will not last much longer . Will it be internal disorders or external conquerors or both that administer the coup de grace?
Universities are granting degrees in zilch with $60,000 student loans attached which enable the student to do nothing that any high school grad couldn't accomplish.
I have run various businesses over the years and I have seen college grads come and go with various degrees of success. There is no argument against a professional degree in engineering, medicine, law, education, finance...etc, but spending 4 expensive years in college and studying little other than co-eds and sports seems counter productive
I favor cutting the tuition for students seeking STEM degrees by 50% and increasing the tuition for those taking useless courses that don’t yield productive jobs or help the country.
The courses in the latter group would include the social/liberal studies which deal with idiotic theories and “feelings” as well as about 2/3 of all law students.
Great idea, free college for people that aren’t competent to bag groceries.