If the United States was wise it would pay for Americans to take their education as far as it would lead them, for that translates as enumerable benefits for the nation as a whole.
The United Negro College Fund had the motto "A mind is a terrible thing to waste", and with the current cost of colleges that sentiment could easily be applied to all the children of America now, but for the most well off.
A Progressive and Wise America would recognize that it is impossible to know where the next breakthrough to propel the nation forward will come from ... a child born with a silver spoon in their mouth, a child born into poverty, or any child in between. Monetizing education undermines the United States competitiveness, and saddling emerging graduates with decades of debt as punishment for the desire to learn is the most self defeating policy a supposedly advanced nation can engage in.
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