The fact that anyone would disagree with the proposition that more people go into less debt and achieve their goals faster is itself an indictment of the educational system. Society is truly working to keep itself down.

In Finland, every kid that graduated high school gos directly into the military for two years, then free college. Works great for them.maybe we should try it.

Most people are unaware that California has a free tuition program for state colleges and universities up until 1985. It no longer has that program. Why?

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French guy here. Going to college costs you only 150$ per year here but degrees are basically worthless and masters are worth less and less each year. Even though you won't have debts to pay, you'll spend the rest of your life paying for the other students with your taxes, including those who restart university again and again because they don't wanna work. Our money from ou work is taken to pay for the huge batch of psychology and sociology students who got themselves in basically dead-end sectors. If someone believe in a project with very few opportunities, great but why should we sponsorize them ?

If you have a drive to constantly educate yourself, you become a Charlie Kirk. He's a fabulous example .

Whether it's free or not is irrelevant. The problem is too many young people are sleepwalking into college to study subjects that have little to no value in the working world, because they have been taught that college is the only viable next step available to them. Many western democratic countries are experiencing this same problem, but it's worse in the US because you go straight from school to college. There is nothing in-between. In the UK for example, compulsory education ends at 16. You can then start to specialise by going onto further education in the form of technical and academic colleges (for free), and then progress into higher education (university) if you want, but you must pay for.

Especially when I went into septic shock w organ failure. I still have to pay again I'm a master mixologist, and master cosmetologist, 12 hours from addition counseling. Yet, because someone failed to file my paperwork; I get to pay again

College is merely deferring Adulthood another four or five years.

I’m in a community college for combination welding! Be done by spring 25

As a taxpayer, I know I don't want to be subsidizing higher education for anyone but myself or my offspring. (Hell, I'm not even convinced subsidizing "public" education is the best option.)

We need more “useful” people! The only one who determines what “useful” is, is a customer! When did anyone see a want-ad for an intellectual, academic or philosopher??

Charlie's right. It's a scam, but if it's not going to teach usable information, it should be free. Get nothing for nothing

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I got my loan (one loan) forgiven. It was 3500 from 1999. I didnt intend for that to happen. I made some pretty shitty decisions in my life. Didnt even get my AA. Im grateful it was forgiven, but feel pretty guilty for the portion i didnt pay on. Which i had full intentions of paying. I dunno. I dont feel like i earned a bail out so im trying to repay by giving back in ways that i can.

FREE? These are ''college'' students!! Geez, I learned in grade three that ''free'' is abstract and there is nothing ''free''!! I'm Canadian(you know, the place with ''free'' healthcare), my annual tax rate would shock the average American. ''Free''...yeah, right!!

it works in many countries. Wanting the most educated population possible is always a good idea. I know that republicans don't want the population to get educated because more educated people tend to vote democrat

I currently make just over $100K, take home. I spent 15 years in the Air Force and got an associates degree because I was almost done with it after technical training. Never went to school full time. I would take a class here and a CLEP there. I wouldn’t enlist today though. Not in todays culture. Maybe if Trump fixes some things after he wins.

Giving away free stuff and money never gets overall good results, because if it's free, people who receive it are also free to let it go to waste. Subsidizing is the way to go, where invested effort and cost is rewarded with additional rewards and returns. This way, only the deserving hard worker will benefit, and lazy wastrels will have no share in it.

Free communist programming, that is what it is all about.

How can you say free college is not the solution when you say college is a scam I think it's unconstitutional in the first place when it's straight up says in our constitution free education it does not say free education k-12 college not accepted it says free education why do we have to pay for books if it's free why do we have to pay for individual classes if we are entitled to a free education

Facts!!

I have 6 years of college education. My common sense has gotten me further in life than any of my college degrees. My education has cost me $80k, which by the way, I have paid every dime on my own without government assistance.

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It’s called the library…

It's always free in that those in power are not going to stop sponsoring educations for the management replacements they need to stay on top.

Right on point, as usual.

People here are so full of shit. Free college and universities (practically free, there might be some nominal fees), are absolutely worth it for most people going through them. If you study some something ridiculous like "gender studies", poetry and so on, of course you are fuc**d, and that's on you. But generally, you definitely get better pay and easier jobs with proper education. I've done both, hard manual labor with hourly pay, and loads of overtime, and now cozy desk (mostly) job with monthly salary, so i know the difference. I earn the same doing easier job 37,5 hours a week with education, as i was doing 50-55 hours a week, much harder physical work.

"Free" college turns college into extended high school.

I'm a college professor and have the impression that many people become less smart and wise precisely because they went to college.

"Free" college would be far worse than student loan forgivness and it would degrade college educationd into nothingness.

More mechanics. try and find a mechanic that can't pay his bills!!!!

The words, well rounded education, shouldn't cost you thousands more, hours of requirements, and absent of practical application.

I never finished high school. I’ve been at the same job for nearly 20 yrs. I’ve work harder than any college graduate out there. Work is better than wasting ur time and money for 4 yr college degree and a piece of worthless paper that doesn’t guarantee you a high paying job after graduation

I graduated from college almost 50 years ago. By my junior year, I realized it was to a great extent a bourgois puberty rite. I can’t say that the BA I received was useless, but little in my professional life was dependent on anything I learned there. Personal enrichment? Some, but a well-stocked public library could have given me as much.

Anything that is free cheapens what ever it is

Naja doch!

At a time when all the knowledge of the world is at our fingertips for free, we should have the lowest percentage of people going to college in decades, but the exact opposite is true.

What a great comment section

I lived at home, delivered pizza at night and commuted to a regional state school. I got a CS degree. Worked out great. College is worth it if you get a practical degree and avoid lots of debt.

It worked in the UK for decades. Still does in Scotland.

Yea. They'll learn it the hard way soon.

Nothing is free in life, because of greedy monarchists. 😅

Just because free college can’t or won’t work in the US doesn’t mean its the same for other countries.

It worked in the 50's and helped America gain super power status after ww2. Free collage is good as it develops skills needed in society and cuts down on immigration from countries that actually invest in their people.

We already have free college. It's for those who earn full tuition scholarships.

Got my bachelor degree at 37, don’t use any of what I learned, I’m one of the leading digital compliance specialists in the world…..never using my degree, but using my experience.

College should either be cheaper or corporations shouldn’t require you have a four year degree

stop arguing with teenagers

I put my self through college working full-time. I busted my butt and put both my kids through college. If anyone deserves to get their $$ back it is those who managed their money and time with borrowing money from other!!

If a person could keep a 4.0 they should get free college but also perfect attendance something on both fronts I wasn't doing

I had to earn work and learn to get paid why not collage students 🤔

The richest and poorest people didn’t go to college…. The slaves (us) all went to college.

Anything that is free is by definition worthless