At that time in university fees were reasonable. Today tuition costs are insane. They are insane because of much largess via loans given to students. The universities then inflate the costs of tuition because they know the students can get loans to cover their insane fees. The few that graduate in science, engineering and medicine are left with much debt but can repay it. Those that graduate in liberal courses obtain a degree but without much viable skills and a huge debt that they probably can not repay.
The real problem is to much government guaranteed loans to students. This is what drives the insane increases in tuition.
It has been a round robin of foolishness, in which all, even the big shot snarkers, have had some hand in.
Unless there is a compromise, the nation will not remain united.
In a land promising such freedoms as it has, Christianity (and its ancestral Judaism) are the only viable choice for a pattern. Jubilee years happened every 50 years for a reason, not just because it’s pretty on a calendar. This way, debts couldn’t last past two or three generations.
Putting government in the place of an eternal father has a price in freedom to everybody...
Let the right inveigh “righteously” all it wants — America needs to mutually sacrifice in digging itself out of an ungodly racket. Period. What “deadbeats” don’t like pales next to what God does not like. What God says simply is that let him who stole steal no more, but do something useful with his hands so that he may have something to share with those in need. Nothing about making up what is lost to the sands of time and folly.
When America rediscovers the jubilee year, there will be jubilation all around. What is this grudge costing us? Things on an eternal scale, that’s what.
Community college and state university can still get you where you want to go, but you have to work at it.