2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: Clinton's Argument That Free College Is Bad Because Rich Kids Can Take Advantage Makes No Sense [View all]hifiguy
(33,688 posts)It's so patently absurd on the face of it. And it's not to say you cannot get a hell of a good education at flagship state school. The Big 10 and PAC 12 are bursting with great state schools - UC Berkeley, UCLA, U of Washington, Arizona and Arizona State, Michigan, Minnesota, Michigan State, Ohio State, Wisconsin (pre Walker, anyway) and I am probably leaving some out.
When I was at the U of MN back in the 1980s one of the people in my honors seminar asked the prof, who had done a postdoc at Yale, what the differences were between Yale students and Minnesota students. His response: "The AVERAGE student at Yale is brighter than the average student at Minnesota. The smartest students here, like you guys, are every bit as smart as the brightest ones at Yale."
But there are a lot of idiots around these days.