The Cost of College
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When I was 18 my grandmother gave me five thousand dollars and said go to college. the five bananas paid for four years ... almost everything... i worked a little, but that money was mine.
that was in the late seventies. today five grand might... maybe pay for university manipulated texts.
now, why is that.
here is why: the gov gives out money for free. there are more consumers, more customers. universities are trying to bring in the bucks.
here is something really sad. some students of mind brought me a research paper from harvard university. they did a survey... 80 percent of the MBA students had no goals. i mean it is one thing for a high school student to have no goals... get some.
it is a whole nuther banana for a MBA student getting tax dollars to go to school. i have met a guy and i knew immediately that his only motivation for getting a master's degree was that he didn't want to work.
and i thought to myself here are people... i mean i actually met two. their educations were paid for by the government through student loans... one of them was going to go to graduate school and hadn't paid a nickle off her student loan for the first degree.
now... if all this money is supposed to go to help people feed themselves, i wonder why it is that a freeloader who gets an initial degree is now able to get a masters on the back of taxpayers. i would say that a 'poor' person who is put through college and still cannot get a job is a pretty poor bet for a hundred grand loan to go to graduate school.
one of them i think had a little drug problem... or never worked. i don't know. but when i think of people who are really poor-both of these were basically well-off white kids-i really feel sick. i think of people who really value education and view it as a way up. i certainly don't think of it as a vacation for rich white people.
again- i think of the story of a person with a dollar who turns it into ten and then a hundred. i certainly have no respect for uncle sam. i never really did want to suck up to an uncle.
When I was 18 my grandmother gave me five thousand dollars and said go to college. the five bananas paid for four years ... almost everything... i worked a little, but that money was mine.
that was in the late seventies. today five grand might... maybe pay for university manipulated texts.
now, why is that.
here is why: the gov gives out money for free. there are more consumers, more customers. universities are trying to bring in the bucks.
here is something really sad. some students of mind brought me a research paper from harvard university. they did a survey... 80 percent of the MBA students had no goals. i mean it is one thing for a high school student to have no goals... get some.
it is a whole nuther banana for a MBA student getting tax dollars to go to school. i have met a guy and i knew immediately that his only motivation for getting a master's degree was that he didn't want to work.
and i thought to myself here are people... i mean i actually met two. their educations were paid for by the government through student loans... one of them was going to go to graduate school and hadn't paid a nickle off her student loan for the first degree.
now... if all this money is supposed to go to help people feed themselves, i wonder why it is that a freeloader who gets an initial degree is now able to get a masters on the back of taxpayers. i would say that a 'poor' person who is put through college and still cannot get a job is a pretty poor bet for a hundred grand loan to go to graduate school.
one of them i think had a little drug problem... or never worked. i don't know. but when i think of people who are really poor-both of these were basically well-off white kids-i really feel sick. i think of people who really value education and view it as a way up. i certainly don't think of it as a vacation for rich white people.
again- i think of the story of a person with a dollar who turns it into ten and then a hundred. i certainly have no respect for uncle sam. i never really did want to suck up to an uncle.
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