Originally Posted by Bostonian
This long article is not easy to summarize, but it makes the important point that student loans are not "aid" in the way grants are.

http://www.nytimes.com/2014/04/13/e...know-about-financial-aid-but-should.html
What You Don’t Know About Financial Aid (but Should)
By RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA
New York Times
APRIL 9, 2014


Originally Posted by Old Dad
Once again, there is no such thing as free tuition or free education, only free education or tuition to someONE, it's still costs others. Let's use the phrase, "Publicly funded education" instead as it's far more accurate.

Perhaps I'm being too picky on the wording, however, there seems to be a lot of word play designed to promote agendas in the last decade or so and personally, I like to see wording used that accurately reflects the scenario presented.




Wanted to make sure both of those posts were on this page of the thread-- I agree with Old Dad that there's not such a thing as "free" tuition in this sense.

But-- I also agree with Dude that it's a societal investment as much as K-12 education is.

Schrödinger's cat walks into a bar. And doesn't.