Government shouldn’t provide any education loans, grants, or scholarships period. Everyone is free to donate whatever they want to whoever they want. That would result in increased accountability (for the dollars donated) and lower tuition for everyone else. Of course, it would also mean lower wages for the leftists who now dominate most colleges, but that’s not so bad either. Our modern education system is just another socialist enterprise that is not fundamentally different than single moms on welfare or corporations lining up for government cheese.
My pet peeve is that these universities are inhabited by 90% Leftists (faculty). I don’t have a problem with doing away with the scholarships et al, but for heaven sake, if government funds are going to these institutions, there should be political parity in the staffing. I’m not going to ever support our universities be the sole proprietorship of the Marxists.
A government grant can sometimes be a very good investment. For example, for what I received in grant money my senior year in college, I paid back three-fold in my first year income-tax payment.