Originally Posted by Dude
That's entirely individual, isn't it? Bostonian has made clear that he views education solely through the lens of cost and direct financial benefit.
I don't. We pay for things such as art, piano and tennis lessons that cannot be justified by financial benefit. However, the teachers charge us reasonable rates that they also charge others, because they don't ask for our financial data to see how much we can be gouged. When someone wants to charge me $240K (the full-pay price for four years of some colleges), yes I think hard about the financial benefit. Most parents do.