Mike Malloy - The Million Student March For Free Education

[hschulein]

On Thursday, students across the country will walk out of their classrooms and march for the right to a free college education. According to organizers, 110 college campuses across the country are expected to participate in the grassroots event.
“Education should be free. The United States is the richest country in the world, yet students have to take on crippling debt in order to get a college education,” the organizers of Thursday’s event, dubbed the Million Student March, explain on their website. “We are united to fight for education as a human right.”
The day of student activism comes just a few days after fast food workers in hundreds of cities held their biggest strike yet as they fight for higher wages and the right to form a union. The biggest marches are expected to be held in Santa Barbara, California, New York City, Philadelphia, Portland, and Seattle, according to Keely Mullen, one of the lead organizers of the event.

Full story: http://thinkprogress.org/education/2015/11/12/3721211/million-student-march/

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[Iwillnevergiveup]

1. Wake up, people

An educated population benefits all of society.

K&R

[jonno99]

3. I don't disagree. However, an educated population also understands that a thing cannot be "free" if

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it requires the labor and/or efforts of another in order to have it. IOW - you have the right to free speech as it doesn't require anything of another person. But a "free" education? No, what you are asking is that your education be "gifted" to you.

Now if your talking about a contract to serve the community for a period of time after you graduate, that is entirely a different matter...

[piet]

4. education is a public good

Soon after his glorious ascencion to the big chair in Sacramento, St. Ronnie set about trashing the finest public higher education system yet created. While president, his Secretary of Education and moralizing compulsive gambler, Big Bill Bennett, completed his master's project at the national level.

A free society with any hope of staying that way must accept the education of successor generations as a public good to be paid for by one and all. Mass ignorance is by far the more expensive course.

National service should be required of all, regardless of education attained at public or private expense.

[Shrike47]

2. Very bad timing. The demands by students for no free speech, etc., have a lot of people mad.

They are generating a lot of opposition.