Why should public colleges and universities NOT be free?
If you go to a European university, where the education is free for all students, you will find that their mentality is far different from ours. You could say that they are much more laid back. As a result, it is not uncommon for students there to take much longer in acquiring their degrees. An education, much like everything else, is a scarce resource. If we made college degrees available to everyone a few things would immediately happen: 1 – The utility of a basic degree (Bachelor’s) would immediately become useless. After all, everyone has one now. We would just be shifting the entry level degree required for many employers from a bachelor’s to a masters or PhD. 2 – Taxes would have to increase, dramatically (not likely to happen here in the States). 3 – More people would attend school, but do so only because they could, not necessarily because it was in their best interest or what they really wanted to do. 4 – There would still be the HAVES and HAVE-NOTS in that if you were not acc
