Why taxpayers should support university educations

<p>Thanks for that post - agree with practically everything in it except I have some reservation regarding the for-profit versus non-profit distinction. We associate the former with the greedy and the latter with altruistic people bent on serving society. Many large non-profits really mirror the for-profits in their attitudes and business objectives and have little in common with the neighborhood soup kitchens that are manned by volunteers and are subsisting on a shoe string budget.</p>