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<p>I don’t know exactly what your point is but my belief is this: colleges and universities should all be privately owned and operated, the states should divest all their interest and holdings in those areas. Like any other institution in society they should stand on their own two feet and not be artificially propped up with the tax-dollars of people who don’t necessarily reap any benefit from it. The government should not extend loans to people to buy anything, including a college degree, and it should not buy debt or bail out people who gambled and lost. We are adults and should face the consequences of our actions, and we should provide for ourselves, not expect other people to do it for us.</p>
<p>Colleges and universities should be free to charge whatever they want. If I don’t like one college’s price, I’ll go to another. Nobody <em>owes</em> me any kind of job training. If I want a better job than the one I have, it’s my responsibility to get the skills and credentials I need for it. If my family wants to help me, or if a lender thinks I would make a good lendee and is willing to finance my education in the present for payment in the future, then fine. I imagine low market demand for poets would force would-be poets to study poetry the old-fashioned way, WITH A LIBRARY CARD, and the higher market demand for accountants, engineers, and nurses would make student loans in those areas easier to get (for those who can demonstrate ability).</p>
<p>Some things are inherently more expensive to teach and it is reasonable and to be expected that those things would be more expensive for a student to learn, but let the forces of supply and demand work that out, not governments.</p>
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<p>I don’t know what I said that gave you that impression, but I don’t believe that.</p>