Hmmm... I've found ...on this continent...If one is truly interested in an education.... It is fairly cheap. Its called a public library. Anyone can use them. They have a wealth of information in them. You are free to peruse to your hearts content. Free from the bias of some professor dictating what you must read.
However, this will only provide knowledge. If you are looking for a degree...the likelyhood is that you are more interested in money than knowledge.
Your comment is completely detestable. It would be ignorant to assume one could achieve a useful level of accumulative knowledge from a library, while trying to support himself without spending an entire lifetime doing it. It would be absolutely preposterous to assume one could achieve this, with the low paying jobs and ridiculous hours many with or without educations need just to survive these days. And you seem to be hinting at indolence as a factor? Please explain, how and when after a 12 or 16 hour shift of labor or anything else, is there time to "go to a library", in reality.
You are however, partially correct in theory, but unless an outside source is providing the financial means to survive, one is not realistically able to attend libraries for hours or study every day. The availability is better than nothing I suppose despite it being impossible to take full advantage of. It is just not possible, nor logical to assume one able to attend libraries frequently enough to attain a significant amount of knowledge when they must also earn their living. . In addition, as the cost of living continuously increases, and many laborers are forced to live off 8-10 dollars an hour doing jobs that used to pay 15-20, it is just makes the impossible, more impossible.
Perhaps you believe social assistance should allow those who spend hours in libraries or studying materials of their choice every day, enough funding to live comfortably for a 4-6 year undisturbed duration?
Unless the latter is what you were implying, your comment is completely preposterous and absolutely ridiculous and illogical!
And I don't believe your post about how only the elite get educated in this country. There is already enough government money in the university setting as it is, and there are plenty of avenues for you to get the remainder funds to get an education. Why would I pay through taxes for someone’s university education, so they can become a lawyer and make 70k a year to start
Because it is his god given right, and not everyone will become a lawyer. To some, it is a matter of life and death. I did not say only the elite get educated, but certainly more of them do per capita.
and second, why do you think one should pay for the knowledge that thousands of years of his ancestors made available? Knowledge that will allow him to benefit society?
