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Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by RestlessMind on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @02:40PM (#26241860)
> Yet somehow the common response to “college is expensive” is “get rid of it” instead of “make it less expensive.”

I don't know what country you are talking about but at least in the US, we have community colleges which are very cheap and can "educate people in the skills necessary for being good citizens". It is only the worthless degrees from private / for-profit colleges which are a problem.

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Re:Interest surges in top colleges, while struggling ones sc... by keiferski on Tuesday February 23, 2021 @02:44PM (#26241924)
I have taken classes at communities colleges. I’m sure many are good institutions, but my experience was that absolutely no one there cared about learning. It is very clearly treated as “second class.”
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