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Originally Posted by Glice
No. No no no no no no no no. No.
It causes people to be more engaged with the world.
It causes people to challenge their understanding.
It causes people to expand their horizons.
It causes people to have access to a society of people from outside of their norm.
It causes people to realise that there's more to this world than shit jobs.
It causes people, if they're lucky, to realise that the world is much more beautiful than economic wealth.
It gives people self-belief and confidence.
It causes people in poverty (hello) to have a framework to break out of strict economic terms.
It sometimes causes people to be annoying turds, but they'd be annoying turds anyway.
Honestly, if education is just another aspect of the free market then no-one should be studying and I'll be voting to have the Nazis in. If your frame of reference is that narrow then - and I mean this quite seriously - please kill yourself.
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Ignorance is thinking that only free university can achieve all of this. Everything you've mentioned, every bit of it, should be rather elementary...you know, like elementary school (and of course, middle and high school as well). < all "free" by your definition of the word.