It’s unclear what President Barack Obama’s free community college proposal would mean for students in California, which already boasts the lowest fees in the nation and waives costs for 40 percent of its students.Just what we need, even more people taking classes that will never lead to a certification or degree.
Update, 1/13/15: From Bloomberg via Instapundit:
“What if people in the policy elite stopped assuming that the ideal was to make everyone more like them, and started thinking about making society more hospitable to those who aren’t? . . . I would argue instead that what’s elitist is our current fixation on college. It starts from the supposition that being good at school is some sort of great personal virtue, so that any suggestion that many people aren’t good at school must mean that those people are not equal and valuable members of society. And that supposition is triple-distilled balderdash.”
2 comments:
If something is "free", it's most likely of no value to the recipient.
Guess how many kids would voluntarily go to public school if it wasn't entertaining enough and forced to go?
what KauaiMark said,plus: can we please ban the use of the word *free*, unless the politician can demonstrate that it has absolutely no cost to anyone? Because, I guarantee--there is a large segment of the population who believe it actually is --just like health care.
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