the idea of intellectual growth — "not just learning things to make a living, but also learning things to enable you to do things with your life, to enable you to find interests and pursuits that may in some way or another expand the way we see things."
There are also social benefits, he says: learning to think together, learning to attack problems together, learning how to disagree.With tuition costs rising and the economy being as bad as it is, I find it very easy to identify with others who question the value of a college education. As the article discusses our current mindset of more college=more money isn't necessarily a faulty ideal but contrary to the historical conception which saw college of a place for intellectual growth and a moral duty (especially in a democratic society as our own.
I wonder what it will take to change our mindset with college. additionally I see a cycle being perpetuated as people see college as a ticket to a higher paycheck educational institutions respond by raising tuition and other costs.
if a college education is a moral duty as citizens what is the best way to balance the needs of responding to the inherent duty to fulfill that moral obligation while maintaining a fair price?
