[lbo-talk] Education expenses, putting it in perspective.

[Wojtek S]

Joanna: "Tuition at U.C. Berkeley now is about 13,000/year and rising."

[WS:]  This is cheap, especially for a first rate institution.  It is
about $40k at JHU.

To play a devil's advocate,  education has become more of
credentialing and branding needed to obtain well paying positions of
functionaries in the neoliberal institutional edifice than learning
and critical thinking.  From that pov, high tuition is a
redistribution of wealth of a sort, from the future inflated corporate
payola to the current wages of knowledge workers.  Not a bad thing,
no?  Besides, if one is interested primarily in learning rather than
obtaining brand name credentials, there are community colleges and
they are dirt cheap in comparison.

Wojtek