Re:How MIT OpenCourseWare transformed a learner's life
by imron on Thursday June 08, 2017 @05:46PM
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> Contrast this with the government's role in creating a vocational structure that saddles students with enormous debt right at the start of their working life
And contrast that with how it was a few decades ago when the government funded universities and a summer job was enough to pay your yearly tuition.
The current loan system is an awful mess of perverse incentives. When people talk about what the government should be doing, they're not talking about the current system.
If someone can use OCW to advance their knowledge and opportunity in society, and then later in their career voluntarily contribute back something, that is a good model for some people.
Contrast this with the government's role in creating a vocational structure that saddles students with enormous debt right at the start of their working life. Also, the arguably opportunistic behavior of the lending market and universities and the devaluing of education via diploma mills.