@Blossom your post is wonderful, but what people hate to add to this debate is ROI correlated directly to SALARY!
Will her or she learn more? Of course, does it make sense from a RAW financial perspective, usually not.
There is a post floating around from a year or two back where someone asked “that question”, “Would the child be better off if you took the extra 150k in education and bought a house, invested it, or paid for grad school looking forward 20 years?”
That is paraphrased I’m sure you can find it though and again almost ALWAYS the answer is Yes, they would have been better off financially.
In the end it is your money and your child, so kudos for being able to pay a 300k college education in the first place!