Reply #35: Education is the best tool to maintain a free society [View All]

-Thomas Jefferson said that in a more eloguent manner to be sure. Having money in the education only serves to maintain the financial class architecture. And I think the attitude that lawyers and doctors deserve to be rich betrays the working class. By keeping money in education (and analogously in healthcare), society gives the financial elite yet another advantage over the poor. See, the there is just as much talent in the poor as in the rich. Poor people have a difficult time becoming doctors or lawyers because of the money systems that keep them in their place. The college at which I am an alumnus didn't have a pre-Med program, they had biology, nor pre-law, they had paralegal studies. See colleges for the poor don't encourage advancement in society like those rich schools.

And the argument that free college education subsidizes the rich and therefore shouldn't be allowed does so at the expense of the poor people who need the help. You're sort of saying that we can't justly help the poor because the rich will get that help too. Capisce?

And as far as I've heard, people (everyday people, people with jobs not in the media) in the UK are pretty pissed that the government is now making people pay for college (according to http://www.wsws.org). College should be free, and admission standards not in any way based on financial standing in society. That system only insures that children of wealthy families get the opportunity that should go to low class, more talented children. It depresses social value. Sounds like the UK educational system is being mismanaged.