Bernie on Rogan

[Griffith]

Free tax payer funded college is the dumbest idea. A good portion of college students never finish. At least now thats on them. When its 'free' people will be going just to party. Poor folk already have plenty of options to go to college.

If everyone has a bachelors degree then it means nothing. A bachelors will now be the equivelent to a high school diploma, so what does it solve?

Exactly.

And then more people will have to study a Masters degree.

[Thin Lizzy]

College costs would have to be dramatically lowered in order to be acceptable to taxpayers as "free". The books could be downloadable pdfs and one teacher could instruct one course to 1000s via video. They should give college credit for subjects mastered on Khan academy and the like. As long as people could be tested at testing centers where they can't cheat, or some other reliable way. Right now you can listen to entire Yale course lectures and other university classes online, read the books, and retain as much as those that paid. You just aren't given credit.

Free college, with college costing tens of thousands, is doing the same stupid thing but making everyone pay for it. The internet should have been a cost game-changer.  For most subjects, no need for brick and mortar, air conditioning, in-person nstructors, commutes, etc...Besides, the average IQ level of college students has dropped over the years. It used to be that only smart people went to college. Many today have no business being there. It's extended high school except you get more intensely indoctrinated and in debt.

College could be much more widely accepted as tax funder funded if they adopted the Netflix vision nstead of clinging on to the Blockbuster model.

That said, no one needs a homicidal Bolshevik wolf in sheep's clothing as president, anyway.

As said, excellent post. With recent developments in technology, most of the educational infrastructure is no longer needed but those calling for free education don’t want to see their precious liberal arts professors put out of work. When, in reality, they are needed as much as a newsstand is on every corner.  The reason the Internet wasn’t a cost game changer for college is because that industry is so heavily intervened by the government. Same deal with healthcare. Bernie is calling for even more intervention to solve the problem.

[The Scott]

Exactly.

And then more people will have to study a Masters degree.

There used to be print ads in matchbooks back in the sixties and earlier. They said something along the lines of "Change your life! Get your high school diploma in your spare time!"

I think it was Marco Rubio who said, "A welder makes more than a philosopher".  He's right and a welder is far more important in the overall economy than a stupid poseur who spouts "wax on...wax off".  Or an actor/actress. 

[SF1900]

I have a Bachelors in Sociology with a minor in Gender Studies.

It didn’t get me the job i necessarily want, but I have a good job at Auto Zone.

[Thin Lizzy]

I have a Bachelors in Sociology with a minor in Gender Studies.

It didn’t get me the job i necessarily want, but I have a good job at Auto Zone.

If somebody told me, for real, that they had a degree in Gender Studies,  I would  just bust out laughing 😂

[SF1900]

If somebody told me, for real, that they had a degree in Gender Studies,  I would  just bust out laughing 😂

It was my minor.