Citations needed, you teach at the college level right?

Where did he call for overhauling it? Try applying the phrase "in addition to" and as LowKey points out online courses, online curriculums, and online degrees are already a thing. It is happening already on a large scale which includes at some very highly regarded institutions of learning and there is a lot of free online, decent courses offered in Computer Science anyway already.

I really dont know how the % of taxes people pay in the US. But here we don´t pay 90% or some **** like that as you may think.

Where is the money spend? Where they spend your money of the little ?!!? taxes?

Wars?

Roads?

IDK

US it´s rich...

Don´t understand how it´s impossible to have free education. It´s not like here is free, but it´s accessible, like 100€ month @ university, and if you be poor state give you money to pay that and survive.

And health it´s free...

Are you saying that if US had education free and healthcare US could not be great and invent that stuff, technology and so?
Why not?

The government should concentrate on organising a range of high quality qualifications, examinations and testing facilities available at a very reasonable cost to anybody (free would be great). There could be prerequisite qualifications but no requirement to do any courses.

That would separate the link between paying to be educated and getting the qualification. The internet and market will do much of the rest though I'm also in favour of the government funding the education part as well.

Obviously it's not going to help for some of the more practical stuff.

PokerJunkie- Didn't you got to Arizona State University?

"I didn't get put on this Earth to care about your well being" is just about the saddest mantra for living that anybody can have.


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Lol no. Government spending for math and science research at US universities was a big part of the US becoming the greatest country ever.

Lol at citations needed, but yes I teach university math

What do you expect from people whose study of political philosophy consists entirely of hearing about one Ayn Rand book?

Please say it isn't so.

The general concept is good - education is basically the internet's wheelhouse. Information dissemination is so easy now that anyone can essentially get a college education for free. I think the primary value of college now is just the degree itself as an employment requirement, and networking.

Given this it's BS how college costs keep rising, and free college will just continue to increase the total amount spent on education in the country.

The biggest problem will be in getting employers to treat the degree as valid. If people aren't hiring the internet graduates, then the smart play for students will still be to borrow to get the "real" degrees, and that will just reinforce employers treating the internet graduates as lesser quality.

LOL at assertions you made your post as being some sort of basis in fact backed up by any quantifiable data.

WTF is wrong with you? Like there are dozens of people ITT offering their opinions on a range of things without going and getting "quantifiable data" and your not pulling this crap with them. Yes I shared my opinion on a few points based on my own experiences like the idea that we don't want a homogenized one sized fits all solution for every poor person in the country, that diversity is good. But I'm not going to go write a ****ing research paper on it backed up by quantifiable data. Do your own damned googling if you are so interested.

My goodness.

By the way, although I didn't have many specific details in mind, I did assume that one thing a national university could offer that others couldn't, would be something like once a week lectures by world class authorities/teachers in all the subjects one might be taking.

Footing the bill for any / every interested American 12th grader: Great policy, no issues what so ever.

Footing the bill for any / every American 13th grader: PURE INSANITY, THE HUMANITY!!1!

Yeah, great policy. Totally. Let's make college free so it can be just as worthless as a high school "education."

Providing free college education isn't the answer to whatever problem you think you are solving.

I don't think we can place all the blame for the way you turned out on public education.

Reading proficiency was s lot better before the government got involved in education.

I like the CPS teachers wanting a raise when only 20% of 8th graders are reading proficient there.

Are you saying that Americans, as a whole, were better readers before the advent of free, public education?

The studying and lecturing can be done online.

But there has to be tests in live designated test sites in all States. Tests can be all multiple choice and the students can mark their answers on iPad looking tablets provided in the designated test sites.

Picture election day. But instead of people voting, you see see students walk into open test taking booths.

Quarterly tests. Halfway tests. Can be done in the above locations.

Ordinary quizzes can be done from home.

Without live official testing its just another online school. Not legit.

you can already get more or less a college education entirely online. It just doesn't actually count.

I think that don´t count on market too.
I saw this topic yesterday and i take a formation in 1hour, have the free pdf "certificate".
Now all courses\formations online in all sites they want money for certificate .
Take that last one free, cos i registed in Dec.15.
Nice i see this topic and finish. Was about EU.

I'm trying to think what word "formation" is supposed to be but coming up empty. Possibly because I just woke up.

I don´t know. But google put the same result