Colleges where everyone works and there's no tuition

Re:Colleges where everyone works and there's no tuition by js8 on Monday May 09, 2022 @03:57AM (#31311665)

I actually entirely disagree with the premise that students should work. I think it's wrong, aside from a perhaps holiday job. They should study, that's it. If they are not busy enough to study, then they don't study hard enough.

That's why, I think, in some European countries, instead of giving debt to students, we give them a stipend. The society should be able to support students enough to study, so they wouldn't have to work.

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Re:Colleges where everyone works and there's no tuition by bonoboTP on Monday May 09, 2022 @04:45AM (#31311894)

True, being a student should be considered a full-time job. I'm from Europe and we get stipends that depend on grades (and financial situation), and studying is at least somewhat considered a duty and responsibility towards society then, instead of the American attitude where students are service consumers, customers who must be pandered to. You can see where that attitude has led on American campuses.

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