tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10536145.post8542336713074120134..comments2023-10-08T09:01:17.216-07:00Comments on The Murgatroyd Blog: A Radical Agenda for the Future of Post Secondary Education in CanadaStephen Murgatroydhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14407855028282306596noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-10536145.post-41480689095163380892013-05-16T17:24:56.345-07:002013-05-16T17:24:56.345-07:00"Why not here?" is a very poor argument...."Why not here?" is a very poor argument. <br />It doesn't make sense to abolish tuition for 2 years of say a 4 year BA. Who would pay for the tuition? The "Student movement" presses for free tuition at the expense of the tax payer. Ontario's government can't handle that expense given the debt and the deficit. As a taxpayer and a university student (which by the way are mostly people who completed high school within the last 5 years; I don't know where the hell you got the idea they aren't) I don't want to see my taxes go to providing a kid education in a BS (yeah some liberal arts programs are infantile and stupid, at least to take with the expectation that there is a job waiting for you after completion) degree. I want my dollars going to students who can actually serve as an investment for the community/humanity, not a Marxist whiner as the vast majority of Liberal Arts students seem to be. <br />Without admission standards university would be even more of a joke than it is now. Certain programs can afford to be selective with applicants because certain programs are better than others. It would eliminate the need to work hard in high school and that just sounds silly to encourage. <br />A reaslistic solution is to allot funding to programs based on employment rates of recent graduate. I know of an art history major who can legitimately look me in the eye and tell me he doesn't know why he can't find a serious non-barista job. <br />Ultimately the problem with university education is that everybody wants one and wants the income bump that goes with it, which is an economic impossibility, not a "human right" as some would suggest. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com