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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.
In the author’s opinion, free college education is______.
选项
A、impractical
B、unsustainable
C、a goal to strive for
D、a way to social equality
答案
A
解析
推理题。原文第二段指出,大学可能免费的唯一途径是:教职工免费贡献时间,教学楼不需要维修保养,校园不需要任何设施。既然没有任何投资就想要回报是不可能的,费用就绝对是个问题。由此可知,作者传达的意思是天下没有免费的午餐,维持大学教育需要诸如维修校园,提供设施等费用,只要这些费用还需要支付,那么大学教育免费就是不可能的,所以作者的观点是大学教育免费是不切实际的,故答案为A。B、C、D三项原文均未提及,故排除。
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