Student loans - the obvious

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I think there should be no loans for grad school. Including law school.

So only rich people should be able to go to law school?? Wow!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:True
Colleges are for the ruling class
Others can become cooks, laborers, tomato pickers, loggers, truck drivers

It used to be this way. Now college is for everyone! But only some colleges are for the ruling class. And others are for the cooks, laborers, tomato pickers, loggers and truck drivers. Now that everyone is "equal", the ruling class has to be able to maintain their status and the caste system that keeps them there and everyone out.

The professional class are not the nobles
The nobles are the ones who own all the land and have titles and live in large inherited castles
They do not need to attend colleges
The professional class are the ones who go to college. eg. a son of a doctor becomes a doctor, etc
The son of a nurse does not become a doctor, or the son of a shoemaker
Recently the high flying have realized that to be respected for more than the family name, you need education. That is why Prince Charles went to Cambridge, and even though he had had the best education you could buy with money, got an admission break, and took the place of another more deserving student.
That is something you could expect from an American education institution, not a respected European one.

But I do not see the need to worry. America is the place where lower class workers stay as laborers. Other countries are more advanced and that is no longer the case. It will take many decades for America to catch up. Or maybe not. There might be a way to attract the foreign professional labor force to come here as h1b visa employees

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think there should be no loans for grad school. Including law school.

So only rich people should be able to go to law school?? Wow!

I was poor, paid full freight and graduated law school debt-free by, gasp, working! It wasn't fun either!! I missed a lot of happy hours. Guess what? I'm not poor anymore.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think there should be no loans for grad school. Including law school.

So only rich people should be able to go to law school?? Wow!

I was poor, paid full freight and graduated law school debt-free by, gasp, working! It wasn't fun either!! I missed a lot of happy hours. Guess what? I'm not poor anymore.

Not possible for every poor student.
Not possible any more.
But congrats, you are proof even the poor are worthy of an education. Many here seem to think otherwise

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think there should be no loans for grad school. Including law school.

So only rich people should be able to go to law school?? Wow!

Doesn't PP's post mean law school should be for everyone? But anyway, law school is available to everyone. And there are a lot of people willing to take the law school gamble that they will be in the top 10% of the graduating class despite evidence to the contrary. Hence, the glut of unemployed lawyers and abundance of law schools salivating at the thought of the infinite number of incoming students lining up for the lottery.