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rob05c · 3636 days ago · link · · parent · post: Obama's Free Community College Might Be A Good Idea, Might Be A Bad One
He misses a third, noneconomic point of college: to create an educated electorate. I don't want to live with stupid people, and I certainly don't want to live with the people they elect. (Which isn't to say you can't be intelligent and educated without college. But on the whole, college brings up the national level of rational thought, I think.)The public policy really spins on the economic point of what, actually, is a college education for?
If college is simply a way of educating people so as to make them more productive
If, however, possession of a degree (even an associates degree) is really just a piece of signalling