[tauwauwau]

I remember from some video on youtube that colleges in US used to be cheaper because government gave a lot of money to subsidise education. It stopped when government figured out that it was essentially paying to create citizens with progressive ideas and critical thought. There may be a lot of things wrong with colleges but they are essential and should be saved.

[BuyMyBitcoins]

>” It stopped when government figured out that it was essentially paying to create citizens with progressive ideas and critical thought.”

I have no idea what that video is basing this on. The government continues to substantially subsidize college education through guaranteed loans, Pell grants, tax breaks, and research grants. And, colleges/universities had a reputation for “progressive ideas” since the 1960’s and it’s not like the powers that be have just recently caught on and tried to shut that down. Depending on who you ask, they’re more progressive and ideologically biased than ever.

[tauwauwau]

I'm not able to find the video, but here's what was discussed in it

https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reaga...

“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education.” -- 1970, Roger Freeman, a Hoover Institution economist and a key educational adviser to Nixon

https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ684842.pdf

Once elected, Mr. Reagan set the educational tone for his administration by

• calling for an end to free tuition for state college and university students

• annually demanding 20 percent across-the-board cuts in higher education funding

• repeatedly slashing construction funds for state campuses

• engineering the firing of Clark Kerr, the highly respected president of the University of California

• declaring that the state “should not subsidize intellectual curiosity"

Reagan also tried to end department of education

https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-29-mn-13948-...

[rhaway84773]

State governments have massively dropped their support for colleges. And the federal govt’s support has barely kept up with rising inflation, never mind the inflated rise in college costs.

In fact, one of the only major changes the federal govt has made in the last couple of decades is to make college loans something you cannot get rid of in a bankruptcy.