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Re:U.S. To Forgive at Least $108B in Student Debt in Coming ... by 654869435418647 on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @11:17AM (#13071920)
Conflating university degrees with the general educational of all citizens is a mistake.

Universities are useful in attaining a particular type of education that is not suited to every highschool graduate. It's fairly clear once you've spent time on an American university campus that not everyone there "needs" to be there on the governments dime for the betterment of society.

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Re:U.S. To Forgive at Least $108B in Student Debt in Coming ... by dexterdog on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @03:06PM (#13074220)
Why do you think they've reduced the level of knowledge of the average HS grad so that they have to go to college to get a decent job? Sure, you have to know more by age 20 now to get employed in a brain-based job, but education should be much easier and more efficient by now.
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Re:U.S. To Forgive at Least $108B in Student Debt in Coming ... by saint_fiasco on Wednesday November 30, 2016 @03:15PM (#13074298)
It is. We have MOOCs now, and ebooks, and online encyclopedias.

But it's like those synthetic diamonds: It doesn't matter how much shinier, purer and cheaper they are, they will never replace "real" diamonds because the whole purpose of diamonds as a status symbol is that they are expensive.

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