Here's a crazy idea for how to finance education: Taxes. We, as a society, pool our resources, educate people with no up-front charge, and fund the setup by taking a progressive percentage of everyone's income for life.
I have a theory that the value of the taxes collected ends up in the cities despite taxing affecting everyone. Children benefit most from this sort of collective pooling but they’re also the most likely to get small town fever. To the ad companies they go