If you chose to go to college should you be willing to pay for it?

College AKA the business of education, is just that a business and now it is run by souless corporations with unrelenting profits in mind and subsidized by government.
The question is who should pay? How this became an issue is during the Clinton years, Bill declared that 98% of high school grads needed to go on to higher education, raising hopes of a class of people that never should gone to college in the first place. Adding these individuals to the class room drags down the rest of class and nobody learns anything...

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That is what was expected ... when I was growing up ..
I PAID my own way .. paid all my own bills (out of my hard-earned income)

Quite frankly .. when you pay your own way, you are far more appreciative of the opportunity and actually work harder to learn from the classes/courses too ..
(have seen this happen in the courses nowadays .. those paying to attend -- working hard .. those who got it handed to them -- let's just say they tossed away the opportunity indeed).

why we save money to be able to study through ?!!!

Yes...definately becasue you do not pay upfront when you start you pay long after you've finished and graduated when your earning $27,000 or more in your full time job, which is why paying to go to College is $9,000 a year for a 3 year course.

I think there are many options. I think parents have an obligation to start a college fund for their kids.( If you want children then you feed them, cloth them, and educate them.) I think the children need to keep their grades up throughout high school to get academic scholarships and do whatever they can to help and develop some responsibility too. They also need to search out available scholarships in their areas, and I think that the students need to work hard not only in school, but hold a part time job when they have free time during the summers to help out with the finances. So, it takes a village. I couldn't have done it on my own without my folks, my kids couldn't have done it without my help and from getting scholarships, and now I am starting a fund for my grandchildren. Education is the most important gift you can give a child. It stays with
them forever and gives young people the learning tools to hold down a job and become vital members in society. A good education should be the entire family's responsibility. Parents and children alike. The burden shouldn't be left totally to one or the other. But everyone working together to make sure that each individual becomes knowledgable. When you work for something, it becomes that much more meaningful.

I only went to Community college on a grant, wasn't willing to take a student loan with 6 kids at home.

However, the amount that American colleges make you pay is outrageous.

I still owe $30,000 for my student loan ,but I am paying it off.
But now I wan`t to go back to school to take something else, can`t afford it, and can`t get a loan until this ones paid off.

If you are not on scholarship. I was on scholly for 2 years before injuring my arm and I ended up having to borrow and re-pay 17K for the last 2 years.

Yes.

OF COURSE
THE OWS POSTER CHILD EXPECTS YOU TO PAY FOR HER..

Hmmmm, the last time I made a comment about this very type of photo I was labeled a HOMOPHOB, and a RACIST.

NOT BY ME..

No not by you but I am NOT taking any chances...

Sister Jean you make me laugh....thank you....
I remember Sr Mary Evans she was my 6th grade teacher...THAT NUN MAKE GOING TO SCHOOL FUN.
Yet we had Sr Francis that taught Religion and well I will leave that a blank.
Again sister for making me laugh.

Willing...yes. But many aren't able to, or to handle the crushing debt.

The US needs to invest in the education of its citizens. In this information age, there is no reason why a college education can't be done inexpensively, mostly on-line.

Regardless, there should be lots more options to get an education and repay the loan with a service career, in teaching, nursing, military service, etc. This can help re-build our middle class and make America more productive.

well the hell kind of answers are these, I don't know about willing but you have to pay it. But we shouldn't have to sacrifice alot of our future by taking on a mortgage like debt. I feel as if the older generations don't get it when their education was much cheaper.

all was cheaper then

That having been said, schools need to be limited in determining what subjects are actually needed for a specific degree. If it isn't relevant, it shouldn't be required. The 'well-rounded' person philosophy is ridiculous.

Professors should actually be required to teach classes instead of graduate assistants. All in all, the faculty should actually be more concerned with actual educating as opposed to merely gaining all the funds they can to perpetuate their own ivory-tower existence.

Loans, grants and scholarships

But too many graduates can't find a job.

But I believe college students should receive 1% interest government loans.

And I'll be paying for the next 24 years... but just because I am doesn't mean that it's time to re-examine it.

College has become all but mandatory for getting a better job. Sure, you can sometimes get technical training or work your way up, but those jobs are rarer and rarer. Bottom line - a college degree gets you interviews that a lack of one simply will not.

I think that the first two years of college or vocational training should be included into the k-12 system. The alternative is more uneducated an untrained people living on welfare.

Absolutely. Tho it would be nice if universities were a bit more practical about the costs. For example, why must there be a different textbook every year? Especially for very basic studies, such as maths.

Someone said that education is a privilege. I whole-heartedly disagree. Education is absolutely a human right.

Basic education, sure. But I disagree regarding advanced education.

An educated society is a better society

No argument here.

Usually it creates more and better taxpayers.

Only because I cannot see that it's worth the money. So I wouldn't be going even if I weren't 73.

It should be like that

Of course. I have $50,000 in student loan debt and at the moment, can not find a job for my degree (education) but I made the decision to go to college, so I alone should have to pay for it...not the government or whoever. Of course, my parents do pay one of my smaller loans, and that makes me feel bad enough, but that was completely their decision. But until I can get an actual teaching job, I will work a minimum wage job to try and pay off the debt I owe because like I said, I chose to go to college and take out student loans, so it's my responsibility to pay them back.

If not you, who ? (parents ?)(government ?)

I hope not because if I have to pay I'll never go.

absolutely!

I chose to go, I chose to pay for it and I have been working in my chosen field for 28 years, Best money I ever spent

Did this.

Of course. I earned a basketball scholarship, a Pell Grant, and a student loan to pay my way. Believe me I have paid back every cent of that scholarship in donations back to our little college. I could not have made it without that scholarship.
What if the company you willing to work for is willing to pay for your education, should one allow that?

Of course, I went and paid for it on my own completely by working extra hours as I was in school.