Originally Posted by philly103
Originally Posted by philly03
the needs of those it's "educating"
Originally Posted by indigo
By needs, do you mean for the students to be workforce ready?

No, I think that's too narrow a definition of the value of education.
For clarity, if you didn't mean "workforce ready", would you explain what you did mean by "the needs of the students it's "educating"," in the context of your post upthread?
Originally Posted by philly103
A strong argument for reducing the cost of public universities is precisely that the current public high school education curriculum does not prepare the average American high school student to actually enter most industries. So, a responsible society has 2 choices.

1) Overhaul pre-college public education such that the students are employable upon graduation; or

2) Subsidize the cost of public university education to accomplish the same goal.

Failing to do either means that we're wasting the money spent on public, pre-college, education since it's largely insufficient for the needs of those it's "educating".