IMO the system, under its current operations, works in the best way. And as bad as this sounds, we can’t have free colleges for everybody because it’ll economically make a college degree worthless. If everybody was getting them then that means there will be a recession on what a Bachelor’s grad is worth. Plus there’s bound to be an issue on the quality some people’s degree. A college is meant (in a very loose manner) to siphone out those who want to better themselves from those who don’t, and by going to school for several years and spending hundreds of hours studying and working for their classes, they’ll be rewarded by obtaining a great career. Some have to pay for it and some don’t, it all depends on your circumstances.

Plus if colleges were completely free (as with any other aspect that is free) people will abuse the system by signing up and not showing, or signing up for items they don’t need, thereby making registration even longer and more difficult than it already is. Can you imagine trying to sign up for Sociology 1303 only to find out that it’s backed up until next year’s fall semester.

So should the government pay for it all? I don’t think so. At best (and this would involve the student signing a document stating that if they drop out they’ll have to pay the money back) I would have the government pay for everyone’s core cirriculum classes (Math, English, etc), and then if the student truly wants to continue their schooling then they’ll have to find a way to pay for the rest of their major now that it’s going into their more personalized classes.

In all honesty, even if colleges were free, I’d bet that 50% of people would probably still not go. For example a person can go run in a school’s track field for free in order to be healthy, but do most people do it? The government also provides free classes to help build people’s credit and find ways to manage their debt, but do you hear about those things being swamped by people? Why, because it involves work. If people can’t even get up off their butt to spend 15 minutes a day exercising, how on Earth are they expected to spend the next few years and hundreds of hours in school?

Anyways hope this info helps out.

Actually, I think one of the goals is to improve our way of living and pass that to future generations. The more you earn the more you pay taxes the more we can pass to future genertions.

i think they should pay for part so that then everyone gets to go [almost], but not all because it would be too drastic of a change in finance.

my friend and her sister lost their dad when she was four and her sister was almost one. they get reduced costs for college because of it.