<p>thats why I suggested we need to make public higher education more accessible and affordable</p>
<p>If someone is going to be making at most $35,000- to $45,000 a year, as the average national income suggests, can they really afford to have college loans of over $40,000?</p>
<p>Wont that affect their ability to start a family, to afford housing and to cover medical costs?</p>
<p>There are other ways to be educated- I think I can hold my own with many on the board, and I never graduated from high school, although I have taken some community college classes.</p>
<p>But in my own community, I see students who attended expensive private colleges, working at Schucks or Old Navy</p>
<p>We have adult children- often even married, living with their own parents, because that is what they can afford.
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<p>I think one of the problems is that we equate attending a university with being educated-</p>
<p>Weve seen that homeschoolers can educate their kids at a level matching some of the top schools in the country, why would we believe that an adult couldn’t educate and inform themselves to be a participating member of society by taking a few enrichment courses and doing a lot of reading?</p>
<p>And if your plumber and house painter have a college degree, shouldn’t they expect to be paid more an hour because of it? They need to pay back those loans after all.</p>