Posted on 02/22/2016 8:57:26 AM PST by Impala64ssa
A cornerstone of Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders's campaign is "free college tuition" for all. At least one college student in the country thinks it’s a bad idea — and she wants you to know why:
Nothing worth having comes easy.
Jordan Morgan, a 20-year-old student, wife and mother, also understands this reality:
When you get down to it… is anything actually free?
Writing for Odyssey, she said the concept of "free" anything holds great implications. Here are excerpts from her article:
Something that has weighed heavily on my mind is the fact that most millennials are hoping, and voting, for free college tuition. What does free college tuition actually do for society as a whole, and not just for the individual?
It may make a student debt free, but free tuition as a whole could "cost the United States $70 billion per year", according to Fox News. If you aren’t paying for your classes, then who is? Where is that $70 billion coming from? Taxpayers.
She's concerned about the impact on the value of a college degree:
If college becomes free, that means more people going to college. […] If more people go to college, the value of a college degree will decrease. […] What will the value of a degree be when even more people have it? It is simply the law of supply and demand.
Students would get a free bachelor's degree, but in order to set themselves apart, they would need to continue on with graduate school. […] How would free college help the societal issue we are already facing of students graduating only to discover they have to do more school?
She also thinks it would influence how hard students work:
College is hard work. You work hard in college because it is important to you. You work hard because it isn’t free. If college were free, students would become nonchalant about their work and their grades. […]
I mean, when you break those cheap sunglasses, you don’t stress because you can just go get some other ones.
Jordan says free college would impact both employees and employers:
In the end, who do you think would be the better employee or boss, someone who worked hard and is proud of what they did, or someone that had it handed to them?
As the old saying goes, "there ain't no such thing as a free lunch." 20-year-old Jordan Morgan already has that figured out.
“I want to hear Bernie say - I am going to TAX endowments of these universities to pay for my “free†college plans.”
Oh, I want him to say that they will halve (or more) professors’ salaries to fund the ‘free’ college education. Just as professional athletic leagues have caps on salaries for a team, a university can have ‘team’ and ‘individual player’ caps.
After all, the profs would understand that it’s important to give the kiddies a ‘free’ education ... that will end up as valuable as your average public high school education. Bernie could get his buddy, Elizabeth Warren, to convince her former colleagues that it’s important ‘for the children.’
Best time for him to go is in winter. Hope he does.
I think the idea of free college is great! And it can be done as soon as those compassionate Liberal professors and administrators are willing to work for little or no money. After all, they want economic justice and they profess to care for the poor, so it just makes sense that they will gladly be willing to forego their large salaries in order to help their poor students. After all, it’s for the children.
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