• @seitanic
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    910 months ago

    I have a degree that I don’t use at all, but I’m still glad I went because of all that it taught me. It expanded my mind and helped me become a better citizen. I learned critical thinking and was forced to grapple with challenging ideas. I also met some cool people whom I had awesome adventures with. You can’t attach a dollar value to that, and it would be nonsensical to even try. This is one of the reasons why I think that college education should be free. It makes better citizens.

    • @n7gifmdn@lemmy.caOP
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      -710 months ago

      You sure sound like someone from the marketing department of a university. Making college “free” would need a heck of a lot of other changes to go along with it, or we will only have even more educated idiots than we do now.

      • @Hoomod@lemmy.world
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        810 months ago

        Plenty of countries provide higher education at basically no cost to the public

        Just because the US doesn’t want to figure it out doesn’t mean it isn’t possible

        • @n7gifmdn@lemmy.caOP
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          -310 months ago

          I think we have different ideas of what “no cost” means, unless I’m incorrect and that university professors and support staff in Europe are volunteers.