<p>Stickershock,</p>
<p>I don't know that I would term the educational debt "motivational"--certainly there are so many wonderful things on campus and in class to motivate a curious mind…forever--I refer more to the seriousness and constant focus required of the student who has invested more than their precious time into their education. Inasmuch as there is, in addition to the otherworldly love of knowledge and intellectual curiosity, a real world accounting; put bluntly, a debt that one takes to be a rather large part of a life lived after the pleasures of a multiyear campus sojourn. </p>
<p>I suppose, to some degree, it is like purchasing a home.
The house itself may be a dream home, as a college could be a dream college, but it is more than a wonderful place to live and bears more than the responsibility of upkeep; it must be paid for, or earned, I would suppose. Such a pleasure and such a burden brings focus to a life of liberty.</p>
<p>I do not by any means wish a financial responsibility on any student or family, but should one exist I think it may bring focus, and clear the mind of a young adult fresh out of high school and straight into college.</p>
<p>There is, otoh, nothing particularly wrong with doing it on the cheap. Many do.</p>
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There is nothing morally superior about them, or you though, and does not cause, imho, intellectual rigor.
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That was by no means my point, and I am sorry if you think it was.</p>