Free College for Everyone?
Foxhound BN0
2011/07/26 16:57:21
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Working and going to school full time is exhausting, and stretching two full time years into 5 part time ones is putting young working adults way back behind their peers in the job market.
Free online automated college courses could replace spending billions on buildings.
It's not Harvard, but it would work, and students could work on their studies any time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Students win, America wins, taxpayers save a ton of money, technology takes another giant leap forward as a new multitude of well educated youngsters take on the technological challenges of tomorrow.
I think the government should spend less on buildings, and more on schools. (online) If we do this, maybe we'll get those flying cars we've waited so long for!
Off topic:
I had to post this pic. Note that he has a wireless remote, but there's a cable from the flying robotic camera to the flying TV. lol
Free online automated college courses could replace spending billions on buildings.
It's not Harvard, but it would work, and students could work on their studies any time, 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. Students win, America wins, taxpayers save a ton of money, technology takes another giant leap forward as a new multitude of well educated youngsters take on the technological challenges of tomorrow.
I think the government should spend less on buildings, and more on schools. (online) If we do this, maybe we'll get those flying cars we've waited so long for!
Off topic:
I had to post this pic. Note that he has a wireless remote, but there's a cable from the flying robotic camera to the flying TV. lol
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connie (in name only) BN-0 2011/07/26 20:59:40I agree. The government should spend less on buildings, and more on education.
+6My 26 YO son spent 6 years earning two degrees, worked as much as possible, drove 45 miles one way for over 2 years and 12 miles the other way, lived at home, and still has $15,000 in student loans (which I guess, isn't bad). Of course, he can't find a job in his field(s); but is still trying. My 23 YO son went to school for over one year, quit, and has been paying on his student loans. Now he thinks he knows what he wants to study, wants to go back, and thinks he can work fulltime to try to pay for his education and all the other bills he has accumulated. And who knows if he will be able to find a job in his field after he has even more educational loans to pay. There is No Way that we can afford to pay for their college educations; so yes, I wish more was available online and at free or reduced rates. And yes also, I would like it if the public schools would spend less money on buildings too. They could afford to do more to educate with a few less dollars spent on athletic facilities and extravagant buildings.
can we afford it right now?
That's immoral.
Throwing MORE money after an ever-worsening problem doesn't seem to work too well, does it?
Pouring money on inefficient government bureaucracies is a proven failure--EVERY time, no exceptions. Eliminate the teachers unions, eliminate the leftist politically correct indoctrination CRAP, fire bad teachers, pay good teachers more, and start by handing parents vouchers.
The quality of education will go up immediately.
With Internet,satellite and Cable TV ,Library's.
I still like workshop class rooms though , cause you get to interact with other people in person.
Sorry - no online course can compare.
And about those flying cars.... im only a few tests and materials away from making a breakthrough, though you might have to call them gliding cars. 8D
In Australia we used to have free tertiary education but it just cost way too much money.
Now an undergraduate degree costs around $15k and it payed of incrementally depending on your income.
if this approach were adopted then, yes, costs to students could drop dramatically and teachers might even be paid more because building construction and maintenance costs would become much less. that would be a Good Thing. but there are lots of caveats that would have to be overcome before it would be workable.
At the moment, there are hundreds or thousands of online "universities" which are scams. they take the money of kids who hope to make their lives better -- and give them nothing in return. they're not accredited and any degree earned through them is worthless.
this proposal sounds like a good idea IF the government will see to it that the scams are stopped. will that happen? I'm not holding my breath.
if the scams aren't eradicated first, how does a prospective student know s/he is signing up to an accredited school?
in my day, we weren't so savvy -- even if we'd had computers. which we didn't.
I guess I was thinking of the time when I went to school rather than today's kids. my bad.