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by SSJPython 633 days ago
Higher education has become too powerful and influential due to unlimited government loan guarantees. They used that to charge insane amounts and hired bloated administrations.

Get the government out of the student loan business and take a lesson from the Germans: promote vocational and technical schooling. Not everyone needs to go to university or get a university education.
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piva00 633 days ago
> Get the government out of the student loan business and take a lesson from the Germans: promote vocational and technical schooling. Not everyone needs to go to university or get a university education.

And while taking that lesson top with another: remove the profit motive from education, since you want to remove the government from providing loans you will need a backstop so the have-nots don't stay forever bound in the have-not enough money for education.

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SSJPython 633 days ago
How exactly can you "remove" the profit motive without outright taking control of private educational institutions?

If you want public education to become more affordable, then standards must be raised and it must become more scarce.

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