If you really want to give free education...
To all of my friends who are already dividing themselves between their other family and friends due to politicians, please allow me to provide clarification regarding Obama's Free Associates and even a solution.
This idea was never supposed to pass. His intent was never to give you free college. If that was Obama's intent, he'd have done it when he had control of congress. No, he has proposed it because he knows the republicans will oppose it and he hopes this forces the youth vote to go to the democrats in 2016. If for some reason the Rs don't take the bait and a version of the idea passes, he wins because he's once again increased the size of government in our lives and created more wealth spreading.
SOLUTION: If Obama actually wanted to give a free education he'd have a professional educator within the Dept of Education (assuming there is one) develop an Associates of Arts and Associates of Science curriculum completely consisting of ALREADY FREE courses that you can take online. People completing the curriculum are awarded an Obama's Associates Degree.
It took me about 45 minutes yesterday to find 60 hours of English, math, history, arts, physical science and elective courses taught by Ivy League schools such as MIT, George Washington Univ, Harvard, Univ Texas, Rice, Stanford, Brown...
For more info on these free courses start at www.coursera.org, www.mooc-list.com, www.edx.org, www.oeconsortium.org, heck even iTunes U!
If you're a politician and actual education of the population is your goal, there's no excuse. Do it now.
This idea was never supposed to pass. His intent was never to give you free college. If that was Obama's intent, he'd have done it when he had control of congress. No, he has proposed it because he knows the republicans will oppose it and he hopes this forces the youth vote to go to the democrats in 2016. If for some reason the Rs don't take the bait and a version of the idea passes, he wins because he's once again increased the size of government in our lives and created more wealth spreading.
SOLUTION: If Obama actually wanted to give a free education he'd have a professional educator within the Dept of Education (assuming there is one) develop an Associates of Arts and Associates of Science curriculum completely consisting of ALREADY FREE courses that you can take online. People completing the curriculum are awarded an Obama's Associates Degree.
It took me about 45 minutes yesterday to find 60 hours of English, math, history, arts, physical science and elective courses taught by Ivy League schools such as MIT, George Washington Univ, Harvard, Univ Texas, Rice, Stanford, Brown...
For more info on these free courses start at www.coursera.org, www.mooc-list.com, www.edx.org, www.oeconsortium.org, heck even iTunes U!
If you're a politician and actual education of the population is your goal, there's no excuse. Do it now.
Not only does this entice the young, but their parents as well, who feel the need to provide their offspring the best opportunity to succeed, which they have been indoctrinated to mean a college degree, but who see the costs of such being out of reach. Thus, by dangling a "free education" this gets the parents to off-load their self-imposed responsibility and feel a sense of gratitude to those who provided the relief.
I truly believe Obama does want free education. That is as long as the education meets the progressive agenda. You won't hear them talking about a free education at a school like Hillsdale College that teaches the truth about our country.
With that said, the president could do just as much for 'free education' without costing taxpayers a dime just by using his position to start a national narrative that education is already out there and already free. There are NUMEROUS competing companies trying to provide Massive Open Online Courses.
The big university money would probably lobby against this though...
But then again that assumes the INTENT was to help people...
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