[lbo-talk] MH & DG on university

[Wendy Lyon]

On 27 February 2012 16:52, Somebody Somebody <philos_case at yahoo.com> wrote:
> I favor free college education, but it seems to me to be a mistake to say that it couldn't hurt. All reforms have costs. In this case, we can quickly identify a couple - firstly, universal college means credential inflation well beyond that which has already occurred in the U.S. Secondly, and more importantly, I would interrogate whether its really emancipatory to pressure the majority of workers to spend four, five, six or more years of their young adulthood in an academic setting.

There's a third one which is commonly argued in Ireland: that parents
have taken the money they would have spent on college fees, and used
it to put their children into private education at lower levels. I'm
not sure how accurate that claim is, though.