Maggie's Farm

I have a certain amount of sympathy for those who have run up humongous debts in paying for college, especially those poor doofuses who majored in Uselessness Studies. One year I paid my college tuition out of my job washing dishes for minimum wage. That wouldn't put a dent into tuition these days.

It could be argued that they have been sold a bill of goods. Judging by some of those Occupy Wall Street signs, they certainly haven't learned to think when in college. Not only have they run up big debts, they have the reasoning ability of a fifth grader. They spent a lot of money to learn nothing. High cost, no benefit.

College tuition needs to be brought down to earth. That will involve to a degree a return to the colleges and universities of days gone by. 1) fewer administrators. 2) a return to more spartan conditions of yesteryear for students. That will be hard to do as the cinderblock dorms, for example, are a thing of the past. The upgraded infrastructure is in place already, and must be paid for. 3) Doing away with much of the curriculum such as the indoctrination coming from various Studies Departments. Online courses can bring costs down.