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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]No.

It is the high price that makes it worthwhile.

As you say, knowledge is free. Between the internet and the library you can access pretty much everything for zero cost. That is not what college is about.

It is a) a signal to employers that you had a good enough combination of intelligence, money and background to be admitted, and b) it is about the contacts you make there.

The contacts you make in place that charges $100 k a year are going to be far wealthier, and therefore far likelier to succeed, because they have every advantage already, than the contacts you will make in a place that charges $10k a year.

It is simply a way for the elites to perpetuate themselves. Nothing to do with education.

And let's not pretend we don't love it for that very reason. I don't know how my kids would fare if they were born into a working class family in West Virginia or Detroit. And, thanks to the US plutocratic system, I am never going to have to find out.[/quote]
Agree 100% with this.[/quote]

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