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by tauwauwau 1194 days ago
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-...