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alsetmusic ◴[] No.42196168[source]
Awesome. Now let’s lower the bar further and do it everywhere. And then let’s keep doing more until students can pay their tuition with a summer job, like they could when our elders went to school.

I’ll hold off on asking for higher education to be free, as the culture still pushes back on that. But a return to the former model would be most welcome.

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1. onename ◴[] No.42196346[source]
Why not be more ambitious and aim for free?
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2. emptiestplace ◴[] No.42196567[source]
It is difficult to enact meaningful change in a country that doesn't see supporting its people as an investment in itself. Discussing the price when it should be free is a distraction.
3. rty32 ◴[] No.42196896[source]
It's never going to happen in a country where politicians try to convince people that college education == elitism, and a significant part of the population actually believes that