Nothing is “free.” Someone has to pay for it. By falling into this rhetorical trap, people like Betsy DeVos ultimately take charge. Let me explain... 2/24
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People love “free” things. As already noted, until the 1960s students in California did not pay tuition for college. In Indiana tuition at I.U., in the early 1970s for in-state students only was twenty dollars ($20) per credit hour. 11/24
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Public colleges and universities in California in the 1960s had to pay salaries and wages for faculty and other personnel. Campuses needed buildings, that, once built, used utilities and required care and upkeep. Of course there are many other expenses. 12/24
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These facts seem obvious, but R somehow overlooked when people talk about “free” college. Education: as much a part of our infrastructure as roads & bridges. No one would expect to use these resources w/o $ 4 construction and maintenance. 13/24
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Today: avg debt for 69% of college grads is $29,600 Debt for 14% of parents who took out loans for their kids is $35,600. We need strong post-secondary education, whether trad’l academic (college) or some form of professional training for a skill. 14/24
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No other country - won’t say “advanced” country; not sure if USA is advanced anymore - heaps idiotic debt on students who go to college. We damage our future by dumping $ into a military as we kill people 4 little/no reason. 15/24
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When ppl use terms like “free” ed’n, they fall into trap. If college is “free” 2 students who then go 2 college & party, avg taxpayers are made 2 feel they’re paying for keggers & middle- or lower-class kids in college R moochers. 16/24
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This enables people such as DeVos to allow glorified loan sharks to gouge money from college students. 17/24
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DeVos also did a number on primary & secondary ed’n: divert $ to charter schools - I know, charter schools are “public” but do not work for most kids as well as traditional public schools - or vouchers. 18/24
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We should abandon notion that anything is “free” In our ed’n system a student should be able to go as far as her/his abilities. M.D. or Ph.D. in science, a tech degree or a Ph.D. in history or anthropology. Probably most would do for a bachelor’s degree. 19/24
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At end of that education, in a public system, students should not face horrendous - or any - debt. The student gets one shot to go as far as his or her brains and perseverance takes them. We ALL benefit. 20/24
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And we should not force kids into the military as what for many is the only choice available to get a degree. (Besides, robots will doing a lot of the work there, soon, and people will be needed far less.) 21/24
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Also we should wipe out all existing student debt, mainly held by same big banks we bailed out in 2008-2009 They already made tidy profits from $ we gave them That influx of cash will result in huge jump in economy. 22/24
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