Colleges Without Tuition: Study for Free
These 8 tuition-free colleges come from Mental Floss Blog, via News Alert and LewRockwell.
The first group require a student to work a relatively small number of hours per week to pay for tuition. The second group of colleges provide full tuition for all students. The last college is giving free tuition to one law school class as a publicity stunt.
What do you think? Should students have to work 10 or 15 hours a week to pay for their college tuition. It is doubtful that the work is at all demanding in any way, for most of the students. Is there any reason that students should learn how to work, or to experience the least bit of responsibility before graduating from college, university, or professional school?
How long will it be before well endowed, high quality online educational institutions begin offering full scholarships to large numbers of students? Certainly if Bill Gates had the least amount of wisdom, he would have cruised this avenue long before he poured so many billions down so many counter-productive ratholes. But then he might not have been seen as politically correct, so I suppose that would not have served.
The first group require a student to work a relatively small number of hours per week to pay for tuition. The second group of colleges provide full tuition for all students. The last college is giving free tuition to one law school class as a publicity stunt.Every student works nominal time for tuition:Several prestigious schools have large enough endowments to provide free tuition to students, but to do so would require the schools' staff and faculty to focus on essentials, and pare down luxury salaries and perqs. Most staff at these universities are good leftists, and wouldn't dream of giving up elitist advantage for anyone.
College of the Ozarks, Missouri
Deep Springs College, California
Berea College, Kentucky
Alice Lloyd College, Kentucky
Full scholarship for every student:
Olin College of Engineering, Massachusetts
Cooper Union, Manhattan
Curtis Institute of Music, Philadelphia
Publicity stunt:
UC Irvine School of Law, California
_ MentalFloss
What do you think? Should students have to work 10 or 15 hours a week to pay for their college tuition. It is doubtful that the work is at all demanding in any way, for most of the students. Is there any reason that students should learn how to work, or to experience the least bit of responsibility before graduating from college, university, or professional school?
How long will it be before well endowed, high quality online educational institutions begin offering full scholarships to large numbers of students? Certainly if Bill Gates had the least amount of wisdom, he would have cruised this avenue long before he poured so many billions down so many counter-productive ratholes. But then he might not have been seen as politically correct, so I suppose that would not have served.
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posted by al fin at 12:04 pm
4 Comments:
Speaking of massive endowments, Harvard should be declared a for profit entity and be required to pay taxes just like General Motors.
The endowment should be taxed too.
My son is working many hours every week and going to school. It can be done. Oh, did I mention he's also paying his own tuition. No handouts, thanks. TANSTAAFL
I worked my way through undergraduate. It would have been boring otherwise.
Ron, I prefer to move toward less taxation rather than more.
Under Obama, only people in the government and who are well connected to the government, will get away without paying taxes. Harvard is politically correct enough to qualify as a "Friend of Barry."
I agree on your general point about taxation, but Harvard deserves to pay like the rest of us. Harvard is a business, just like General Motors. In fact, GM is now the non-profit and Harvard is the heartless corporation ruining communities, destroying lives and "the will of the people" in its quest for money and power.
Prior to the English Reformation the Lollards were a movement advocating that the church pay taxes like everyone else, which made sense considering that the Church owned one third of the country. Several centuries of agitation led to Henry the 8th seizing church lands and selling them, helping to break the power of the Roman church over England. Harvard has even accumulated its endowment the same way the Church acquired its landholdings, by tax exempt donations allowed to build up over time, with the donations extracted from well meaning men who are guilt tripped into giving.
I want the current Little Dark Ages to come to an end, and I want our modern priesthood destroyed, so that everyone can think for themselves without needing a "priest" to tell them what to think about global warming, race, immigration, economics or federal power.
And if bringing our current dark age to an end means we have to either tax Harvard, close it, or seize it and fire half of the professors, then so be it. Maybe like Henry 8th we could sell it after confiscating its endowment.
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