Should College Be a Constitutional Right?
AdriHead
2012/07/11 22:38:43
|
|
|||||
|
177 votes
|
|
31% | |||
|
387 votes
|
|
69% | |||
We all know student loans can be killer. And though Congress recently announced a tentative deal that would prevent student loan rates from doubling, according to a recent poll, that's still not enough for the average American.
A national poll done by the Carnegie Corporation of New York found that most Americans (76 percent) believe that access to higher education should be a constitutional right. Additionally, 67 percent believe that the cost of college is the biggest barrier to that access. It's a controversial issue, but it has to be asked: Do you think easier access to college should be a constitutional right for all Americans?
GOOD.IS reports:
A national poll done by the Carnegie Corporation of New York found that most Americans (76 percent) believe that access to higher education should be a constitutional right. Additionally, 67 percent believe that the cost of college is the biggest barrier to that access. It's a controversial issue, but it has to be asked: Do you think easier access to college should be a constitutional right for all Americans?
GOOD.IS reports:
A deeply divided Congress gives us little hope, but 150 years ago an equally partisan climate produced some of the nation's top public universities.
Read More: http://www.good.is/post/most-americans-believe-col...
Top Opinion
-
rustyshackelford 2012/07/11 23:08:27
LEARN America is a corporation - not that we should expect anyone who came out of a government school to know this FACT - and you promote ignorance to continue such revisionist history and lack of education aka brainwashing, via government schools. Is America a corporation YES IT IS http://reality-bytes.hubpages...
Take care,
Liberty: freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice.
Since the college system is forcing a standard of education necessary for constitutional rights, yet, is subjugating those without enough money to attend such education without offering any alternative routes, it is in contradiction with Our Country's constitution. For what is more controlling, more interfering, more obligating, more restricting, more hampering, and in violation of pursuing our choices than limiting our education/knowledge.
This method of control has been historically used to keep people as slaves, to deny them freedoms, and to obtain luxuries at the expense of those beneath them. This is indubitably so. Yet, since people are able to neatly package this philosophy into a merit based philosophy, we are more than humbly would digest it?
Do you deny these self-evident truths to be true? That knowledge is power, and withholding that knowledge by any price is a form of oppression to freedom? Would you have preferred to live in a time period which regulated who could have an education and who couldn't based on whatever preferred discrimination was to your liking? Perhaps, you wish our ...
Liberty: freedom from control, interference, obligation, restriction, hampering conditions, etc.; power or right of doing, thinking, speaking, etc., according to choice.
Since the college system is forcing a standard of education necessary for constitutional rights, yet, is subjugating those without enough money to attend such education without offering any alternative routes, it is in contradiction with Our Country's constitution. For what is more controlling, more interfering, more obligating, more restricting, more hampering, and in violation of pursuing our choices than limiting our education/knowledge.
This method of control has been historically used to keep people as slaves, to deny them freedoms, and to obtain luxuries at the expense of those beneath them. This is indubitably so. Yet, since people are able to neatly package this philosophy into a merit based philosophy, we are more than humbly would digest it?
Do you deny these self-evident truths to be true? That knowledge is power, and withholding that knowledge by any price is a form of oppression to freedom? Would you have preferred to live in a time period which regulated who could have an education and who couldn't based on whatever preferred discrimination was to your liking? Perhaps, you wish our basic freedoms of expression to come at a price and to be merit based, that in order to voice our thoughts, to express our art, we must monetarily earn it through a governing non-government organization. What have you? Should our price of expression come at 100.000 dollar price tag? Indeed, no one in their right mind would agree to that, lest they be dictatorial and on top. No one dare to contradict that, as it's plainly written and stated.
However, let it be known that college is gaining more power, they control the knowledge distribution, and they have placed our livelihood at a price tag. Should we not dare question the existence and the ramifications of such a force. Should we not out cry that our freedoms finally come at a price that everyone can agree to for their own selfish purposes which will no doubtfully doom our future?
Take care,
http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
http://www.sodahead.com/unite...
You won't learn the above unless they choose to let you do it or you pursue it on your own.
BTW: If you're going to use any legal references in your comments, please define your terms with a Law Dictionary, preferably Black's or Bouvier's.
Education is expensive because Liberal Unions keep sucking government money away from the students and into their pockets. Every time the government dumps more money into student loans or grants. teacher unions demand higher pay and more benefits. Forcing Universities to raise tuition - It is a vicious cycle.
In any event, it's indisputable that college is needed for any sort of job anymore, and it's become a criteria that is needed to live, much as water is. Now, if you are to base what constitutional rights are on how essential they are to our pursuit of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, than this indubitably qualifies; else, perhaps we shouldn't have any constitutional rights towards that effect? Perhaps we shouldn't have any freedoms if we can't honor the most basic.
Take care,
There is no Constitutional right for society to subsidize your lack of ambition.
Indeed, Take care,
This is what separates people like me from you. We work for our success, while people like yourself sit on your ass and wait for someone else to do all the work for you.
Your life is your own, unless if course you suffer from a legitimate mental or physical disability (such as paraplegia or mental retardation).
Universities are expensive because of the Liberal system that controls it.
Who said that people won't earn their education in a "free" based system? Do all of the college students that takes grants and scholarships not earn their education? Do all of the students who go to public schooling, not that you would ever be one of them lest you are a hypocrite, didn't earn their education? Oh no, by your logic, whoever can't afford to go to college are social leeches who hasn't earned a damn thing in their life. :)
Yea, people want "handouts", so they don't have to earn it for themselves. That's what happiness means. 80,000 dollars isn't too much for someone in squalor to afford. You are absolutely right. These parasites of mankind needs to be eliminated from society. All they do is drive us higher individuals work force and die. We can simply replace them with robots. GO US!.
Perhaps this conversat...
Who said that people won't earn their education in a "free" based system? Do all of the college students that takes grants and scholarships not earn their education? Do all of the students who go to public schooling, not that you would ever be one of them lest you are a hypocrite, didn't earn their education? Oh no, by your logic, whoever can't afford to go to college are social leeches who hasn't earned a damn thing in their life. :)
Yea, people want "handouts", so they don't have to earn it for themselves. That's what happiness means. 80,000 dollars isn't too much for someone in squalor to afford. You are absolutely right. These parasites of mankind needs to be eliminated from society. All they do is drive us higher individuals work force and die. We can simply replace them with robots. GO US!.
Perhaps this conversation is too complex for you: you mentioned that you might have a mental retardation through inference. Therefore, I will gladly take pity on you and leave you be. :)
Take care,
Because if not, you deserve nothing but that which you are willing to work for.
Our welfare system has already proved: The more money you throw at people, the more dependent people become on the government.
As a Psychiatrist once noted:
"Based on strikingly irrational beliefs and emotions, modern liberals relentlessly undermine the most important principles on which our freedoms were founded. Like spoiled, angry children, they rebel against the normal responsibilities of adulthood and demand that a parental government meet their needs from cradle to grave."
You have the right to PURSUE a college education, and PAY FOR IT YOURSELF! You have NO rights to anything that someone else has to provide for you.