2014-01-17, 01:16 PM
Dudewitbow Wrote:there's different factors that come into play if college tuition is free. albeit i would love to be able to not pay for college, theres one thing a profit based system protects. That one thing is that the lower the cost of tuition of a class is, the higher the chance someone will take a class slot and potentially drop the class later on, wasting that slot. Since they aren't paying for the class, the sense of money loss ins't as great as those who say pay 2-4k for a class, and feel they wasted 2-4k because they are failing a class. the people who actually pay for the classes are generally more serious about their work.
We see the opposite happening in Israel. People who pay higher tuition generally feel entitled to graduate no matter what. (And the schools instruct the professors to basically pass everyone). The best schools are actually the government-subsidized state Universities. They're not free, but they're much cheaper than private colleges.
A free college system could place limits on repeat classes and total years to graduate, so that people would have some incentive to actually get their studying done. Also, I assume this program doesn't talk about paying people's living expenses, just tuition, so there is still some monetary pressure to finish your degree and start earning the big bucks.