<p>"Not to be a contrarian, but it seems to me that the financial imposition may serve to be inspiring and motivational to the student that takes their education seriously. That is to say, they are not able to aimlessly drift about from party to gut course to general intellectual laziness."</p>
<p>Where is church lady when I need her? </p>
<p>Intellectual laziness?</p>
<p>As someone who is slowly going deeper into poverty from student loans we owe, and looking at yet another child who shall need us to borrow to attend school at all ...
Thinking that a form of guilt or shame, ie they bet the farm so I better work, is a sensible goad is not correct. Do you think YOU would be drifting aimlessly and taking gut courses if your parents were not borrowing? Do you feel you need outside motivation to work hard? If you think you'd work hard anyway, why assume no one else would be so motivated.
The hardest worker and I think easily the most intellectual kid I know breezed debt free through private hs and is about to graduate debt free from Harvard. She loves learning and hard work.<br>
It is wonderful you are proud your parents are helping and inspired by this to work hard. There is nothing morally superior about them, or you though, and does not cause, imho, intellectual rigor.</p>