Spiraling Cost of Education
When I went to university in the 1960s, I did not have to borrow money from anyone,
not even my parents. All I needed to cover my tuition, textbooks room and board was a summer job, a part time job
marking papers, a part time job running a tutorial and a government scholarship. I graduated and continued for a
couple more years without a penny of debt. Today students graduate with hundreds of thousands of dollars in debt.
That makes no sense. Teaching should be much cheaper today, with the Internet, video
DVDs (Digital Video Discs), CAI (Computer Assisted Instruction)
and eBooks. There must be powerful people who do not want people going to university. They want an ignorant
population. Who could those people possibly be?
