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Re:59% of Americans worry student loan forgiveness will make... by ecnahc515 on Monday August 22, 2022 @12:50PM (#32554011)
You could use the exact same argument even for many engineering degrees. A lot of people spend a lot of time, and money (from loans) trying to get CS degrees, only to fail to get through to upper division courses before changing majors. Is that money wasted? Should we move towards a model where your major is preselected for you before you attend college, based on your aptitudes, without you having any say in the matter? After all, we don't want to waste any money. What about if the major was preselected and you still failed to make any progress?
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Re:59% of Americans worry student loan forgiveness will make... by nradov on Monday August 22, 2022 @01:55PM (#32554887)
We should move towards a model where the availability and interest rate of student loans is based on actual risk as determined from the default rate of previous students who attended the same school with the same declared major. Students will then be able to make informed decisions about which major to select and how much debt to take on.
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Re:59% of Americans worry student loan forgiveness will make... by solardev on Monday August 22, 2022 @02:33PM (#32555344)
That seems pretty reductionist. An education shouldn't just be dollars in, dollars out for future job training. We don't merely need good workers, we need better citizens.
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Re:59% of Americans worry student loan forgiveness will make... by nradov on Monday August 22, 2022 @05:15PM (#32557369)
Please provide evidence to show that a college education reliably makes people into better citizens. In my experience there is very little correlation.
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Re:59% of Americans worry student loan forgiveness will make... by solardev on Monday August 22, 2022 @11:07PM (#32560080)
Well, they're more likely to not vote Republican, for starters. That's a good thing, almost always.
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