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Sanders: Where Do We Go From Here?

Erod said:
Are you really comparing German college to the vast system in America that offers high-level specialization and opportunity to students of all academic backgrounds and abilities?

Germany is a mess.
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I was just trying to make a point. Just a few decades ago, college was cheap enough that a part time job was enough to cover tuition. Didn't seem to hurt them at all, and you have no basis for assuming increasing public funding to those levels, or doing the equivalent of the GI bill but for all students, would hurt the quality of education.

Heck, existing schools would just have a much larger applicant pool, with ability to pay no object. So why with larger numbers of applicants would quality go down? At UT at least, the competition for slots has had the opposite effect. The admissions are more selective, and we're getting better students than ever. When I was that age, there was essentially NO chance a HS graduate with a completely ordinary (C or C+ average) record and median test scores would be rejected. That's just no longer the case at UT.
 
ludin said:
I have talked to plenty of Canadian people in the US that hate their system.
they can't stand the fact that it takes a year or more to see a doctor.

they would rather pay the cost to see one so they come to the US because of the wait times.
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this is the last time that i'm going to remind you that the Canadian system usually pays for that.

Debunking Canadian health care myths – The Denver Post
 
JasperL said:
I was just trying to make a point. Just a few decades ago, college was cheap enough that a part time job was enough to cover tuition. Didn't seem to hurt them at all, and you have no basis for assuming increasing public funding to those levels, or doing the equivalent of the GI bill but for all students, would hurt the quality of education.

Heck, existing schools would just have a much larger applicant pool, with ability to pay no object. So why with larger numbers of applicants would quality go down? At UT at least, the competition for slots has had the opposite effect. The admissions are more selective, and we're getting better students than ever. When I was that age, there was essentially NO chance a HS graduate with a completely ordinary (C or C+ average) record and median test scores would be rejected. That's just no longer the case at UT.
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Same with A&M. The applicants have doubled there in 10 years.

That's what is driving the cost up, but both schools are now 55,000 students.
 
Celebrity said:
Not yet, but it will be in time. Germany is in trouble, that's why the right wing nationalism is supposedly on the rise.
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Socialism eventually cannibalizes itself, especially shared socialism with bankrupt countries like Greece.
 
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