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There’ re currently 21.5 million students in America, and many will be funding their college on borrowed money. Given that there
There’ re currently 21.5 million students in America, and many will be funding their college on borrowed money. Given that there
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2021-01-08
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There’ re currently 21.5 million students in America, and many will be funding their college on borrowed money. Given that there’ s now over $1.3 trillion in student loans on the books, it’ s pretty clear that many students are far from sensible. The average student’ s debt upon graduation now approaches $40,000, and as college becomes ever more expensive, calls to make it " free" are multiplying. Even Hillary Clinton says that when it comes to college, " Costs won’ t be a barrier. "
But the only way college could be free is if the faculty and staff donated their time, the buildings required no maintenance, and campuses required no utilities. As long as it’ s impossible to produce something from nothing, costs are absolutely a barrier.
The actual question we debate is who should pay for people to go to college. If taxpayers are to bear the cost of forgiving student loans, shouldn’ t they have a say in how their money is used?
At least taxpayers should be able to decide what students will study on the public dime. If we’ re going to force taxpayers to foot the bill for college degrees, students should only study those subjects that’ re of greatest benefit to taxpayers. After all, students making their own choices in this respect is what caused the problem in the first place. We simply don’ t need more poetry, gender studies, or sociology majors. How do we know which subjects benefit society? Easy.
Average starting salaries give a clear indication of what type of training society needs its new workers to have. Certainly, there’ re benefits to a college major beyond the job a student can perform. But if we’ re talking about the benefits to society, the only thing that matters is what the major enables the student to produce for society. And the value of what the student can produce is reflected in the wage employers are willing to pay the student to produce it.
A low wage for elementary school teachers, however, doesn’ t mean elementary education isn’ t important. It simply means there’ re too many elementary school teachers already.
Meanwhile, there’ re few who’ re willing and able to perform jobs requiring a petroleum engineering major, so the value of one more of those people is very high.
So we can have taxpayers pick up students’ tuition in exchange for dictating what those students will study. Or we can allow students both to choose their majors and pay for their education themselves. But in the end, one of two things is true:
Either a college major is worth its cost or it isn’ t. If yes, taxpayer financing isn’ t needed. If not, taxpayer financing isn’ t desirable. Either way, taxpayers have no business paying for students’ college education.
What does the author think of college students funding their education through loans?
选项
A、They only expect to get huge returns.
B、They are acting in an irrational way.
C、They benefit at taxpayers’ expense.
D、They will regret doing so someday.
答案
B
解析
细节题。原文第一段第二句话指出,现在记录在册的学生贷款已超过1.3万亿美元,很显然很多学生都很不理智。由此可知,作者认为大学生贷款上学是不理智的,故答案为B。A项原文未提及,故排除。C项与原文不符,原文中提及让纳税人承担学生的费用只是一种假设,并没有付诸实践,故排除。D项推理过度,作者只是说这是不理智的,并没有说学生们有一天会后悔,故排除。
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