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I would support tax paid free education for a persons entire life until the day they die, over tax paid universal healthcare anyday.
The world is overcrowded anyway, last thing we need is healthcare making it more crowded. Smart people on the other hand, those are a rare commodity, we need as many of them as we can get.
@freemo I'd hate my taxes to constantly go towards yet another copyrighted calculus textbook. Or another literature professor that tells me what to think and that the only meaningful writing is propaganda. I just really hate my education system. I prefer autodidacticism but the credentialism on the job market is a serious obstacle. Just make information free.
@likho To be fair I really hate the educational system too. I think they do a really shitty and ineffecient job at teaching and there needs to be reform in how we teach.
My hope would be that with such a massive investment in education it would ultimately lead to that very reform.
The other thing is with everyone getting life long free education my hope is the focus moves away from degrees at all as everyone is educated by default. This alone might fix a lot of the problem as teachers are no longer authorities but partners with the students. They arent in a place to judge. I'd even do away with formal grades.
Either way what I know is that as shitty as the educational system is that we have, its all we got. The stupidity of the average american is absolutely overwhelming. So I'll take a half-assed educational system over nothing.
@likho the problem with just making education free, without actually have experts themselves at your disposal, is that most americans have proven they are completely clueless on how to take infinite information and learn what is real and what isnt and ultimately understand the systems well enough to evaluate it.
We dont need degrees or credentials, but we do need demonstrated experts to help guide people to a deeper understanding. Give people a calculus book with no professor and your lucky they will study it at all.
@freemo Improving education is a research project, you can dedicate a budget to a research project, but you can't "cover the costs" of it. All you will achieve trying that is people making up costs to cover. There is no objective measure of education and no objective requirements for teaching and learning, past the basic requirements of survival and prosperity, which includes health care.
