Should higher education be free for everyone? Should higher education be free for everyone?

It
seems to me that too many people take a passive attitude toward "education." These
people tend to assume that education is something that happens to you and that without having
people and institutions to do this mysterious thing called "educating" they will have
to remind in a benighted state of ignorance all their lives. There is nothing to prevent people
from educating themselves every day--if they are willing to focus on learning and to forego the
mindless chatter and tasteless music that distracts so many of the masses. The modern world
offers all kinds of facilities for improving our...