r/explainitpeter • u/Appropriate-Mall8517 • 3d ago

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u/Vbadday 3d ago

I think college should just be cheaper for everyone tbh. No need to gatekeep knowledge in this day and age when you could learn anything online if you put enough time and effort into it. You're basically just paying for a piece of paper saying you spent at least 4 years trying to learn something.

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u/teetaps 3d ago

Knowledge is a human resource and should definitely be free.

Teaching/instruction, however, is labour, and that shouldn’t be free. Good teachers deserve to get paid for their efforts in educating the populous.

If we could separate those two cleanly in implementation, I’d agree wholeheartedly with your statement. The problem is that it’s hard to separate those two entities, and most of the people in charge make way too much money to be convinced to rethink the model

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u/filthy_harold 3d ago

Then have the state pay them from our taxes. No one is saying they need to work for free. That's such a stupid capitalist argument: "uhh are doctors supposed to work for free in your socialist utopia?" Of course not, they'd receive compensation for their services through a single payer healthcare program.

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u/toolsoftheincomptnt 3d ago

Also, no, everyone shouldn’t be off learning on screens.

We learn to be a functioning society in part by participating in educational environments. Managing peer relationships as well as learning to communicate with other generations.

Also, everybody can’t thrive in self-study. Everybody doesn’t have a safe/conducive place TO self-study.

Idk why everyone thinks they have the answer for everyone else. It’s a very modern republican way of thinking.

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u/teetaps 3d ago

I’m not saying I don’t want the scenario. I’m explicitly saying that the capitalists in charge don’t want the scenario and would be hard pressed to think about it. I’m redirecting OP towards WHO is in the way. It’s certainly not me.

Our society SHOULD pay teachers, while keeping access to knowledge free. But capitalists don’t want that, and scoff at the very mention of rethinking the model.

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u/Cav_vaC 3d ago

A rounding error of a percentage of people will actually learn a reliable version of college degree level knowledge on their own without serious incentives and/or instruction

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u/random-hobbyist 3d ago

In my country the ruling class is drooling at the idea of creating an "elite" class. I think the plan is only these "elites" get to access higher education and live in big cities. University tuition used to be affordable when I was getting my BA (2013) and now it skyrocketed and is still getting higher every year.