Teachers and leaders of American Society need to stop telling our kids to go to College!

[theRepublic]

HappySqurriel said:

theRepublic said:

I'll just leave this here...

I'm not sure what your point was ...

The entire reason tuition can increase at a faster rate than inflation is because the government backs loans to students to pay these outrageous tuition rates.

For a wide variety of reasons an "arms race" has been created in colleges throughout the United States (and to a lesser extent most of the western world) where colleges and universities are spending more and more money to attract students and faculty. Building more new buildings, funding expensive college athletics programs, and paying "professors" more to do less teaching and more research all costs money and (as long as students can find money through cheap credit to pay for it) increasing tuition will provide colleges and universities the money they need to cover these costs.

And your solution is?