A Partial Solution To High Tuition Costs?

[vt]

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[dcarrigg]

Re: A Partial Solution To High Tuition Costs?

https://www.washingtonpost.com/local...8e4_story.html

I don't think that accepting anybody with a pulse and online classes are going to solve any problems. If anything, the school's perceived quality is just going to suffer.

[vt]

Re: A Partial Solution To High Tuition Costs?

I thought that's what community colleges did. It works for a good number of students and helps many to move on to four year colleges.

The key is to educate more of our citizens.

[Milton Kuo]

Re: A Partial Solution To High Tuition Costs?

I don't think that accepting anybody with a pulse and online classes are going to solve any problems. If anything, the school's perceived quality is just going to suffer.

The U.S. would be far better off making the curriculum of primary school, which is "free", more challenging and damn the esteem of the stupid and lazy students who would fail under a high quality curriculum. As it has been said here and elsewhere, there are many white collar jobs that don't actually require a college degree. A solid high school education and maybe a bit of on-the-job training is easily enough formal education for many jobs that pay well in excess of $100,000 per year.

As for the public colleges, I know of someone who has an accounting degree from a state university that's considered reputable and yet he does not know how to compute compound interest even when given a calculator, paper, and pencil. When computing returns on an equity in a healthy company, he was showing returns of greater (in magnitude) than -100% for some years. It never occurred to him that such a thing is utterly impossible when computing a compounded rate of return for a total return that is greater than zero.

Usury and, in a way, its counterpart entitlement is getting totally out of hand in this country.

[don]

Re: A Partial Solution To High Tuition Costs?

+1

Usury and, in a way, its counterpart entitlement is getting totally out of hand in this country.

As more of the population becomes "redundant" entitlement plays an important role in keeping the herd moving in the right direction.

[BK]

Re: A Partial Solution To High Tuition Costs?

Eliminate HELOCs for tuition, student loans should be limited to $10,000-$15,000 total per student for entire education.

Education reminds me of the Soviet-USA arems race- and everyone is spending more money to beat the other kids family. As every one races to grab fewer and fewer good job opportunities.

It never dawns on any body that all the money going into K-12 (extracted from home owners through draconian tax increases) and over inflated University education is what is killing the economy and job opportunities.

[don]

Re: A Partial Solution To High Tuition Costs?

Take the E out of FIRE