aynrandroolz wrote:
i believe you should be able to go and study whatever you like - for free
And people can, libraries don't cost anything, people can go in whenever they like.
If people want to spend their life at university then taxpayers shouldn't be expected to pay for it, sorry.
The best option is for the govt to keep a lid on costs, as they used to in the UK, have fees approximately related to the cost and let the market mostly sort it out from there - with some exceptions for nursing etc where pay is typically low (and needs to be for hospitals to function).
Students should pay some component of costs, tuition and living expenses, so they at least have to consider if there's going to be a cost-benefit.
The govt used to keep a lid on places too, there was no point in having 1,000s of art critics graduate every year and no railway engineers, so to some extent there was central planning and it worked OK.
