<p>I think it should be in some ways. I think college should be earned with effort, not parental income. If I work my butt off, and get accepted into a good school, I should be able to go to a good school, and not be stuck attending Community college because my family’s poor. </p>
<p>For the schools I want to go to, unless i get gates millennium, I’m going to OU (and that’s if the program I’m in stays in place with the budget cuts, otherwise I have to go local :(, and that eliminates my chance of being a doctor)</p>
<p>It can, and you have a chance at almost any university in the United States with either a merit-based scholarship or a financial aid package if your parents’ income isn’t high enough to pay for your education. You are only limited by your lack of achievement.</p>
<p>I am not a big fan of identifying any purchased product as a right. I think rights have to do with freedom of actions, beliefs and choices that do not harm others.</p>
<p>Another way of phrasing the question is “Should a portion of your time and efforts be required to be given to another person to pay for their college education?”</p>
<p>College is not an entitlement. One way or another, you have to earn the right to attned a good college. I don’t want to beat a dead horse but many poor and very poor students have overcome very challenging hurdles in the past. Today there are much better odds with needs blind admission, financial aid with no loan burden, merit assistance, etc. As the Stones sang: “You can’t always get what you want …”</p>
<p>I did the math. it would cost the feds over 350 billion USD to pay for everyone which obviously doesnt need to happen. rich kids can pay their way. the only challenge would be how to keep costs down. since it would be like a single-payer system in a way and that creates a disconnect between the buyer and the seller. how about we just repeal obamacare and add this program—it costs less and it’s arguably worth more…</p>
<p>Yep. College should be a right. Then you should be able to get into graduate school because that’s a right too. And then the government should have to find you your job. Maybe they can even send out a representative to work for you while you sit back and do nothing! :P</p>
<p>Well, it depends. Is kinda hard to consider. If someone can’t afford college then yes, they should be able to go. But, if they were that determined to get in college, and studied their bottoms off, wouldn’t they get a scholarship of some sort? grrrrr. In my opinion, I think college should and should not be a right, and the same thing with grad school. If someone can’t afford it, they should be able to go, regardless of their income etc.</p>
<p>I find it extraordinary that the strongest argument advanced against universal free tuition, in this thread, is that it would upset people who already had to pay through the nose for their degree. There’s something to this – the world is full of bitter, small-minded people – but speaking as someone who had to pay through the nose for my degree, universal free tuition wouldn’t upset me in the slightest. In fact, I’d gladly take the hit on taxes in order to know that the citizens of America were actually going to be educated enough to meet the challenges of the coming century. </p>
<p>We can’t just keep importing smart people from other countries forever. At some point we’re going to have to start creating more of our own.</p>