Being self educated and still ravenous for truth and knowledge now as a much older man, I am of course still learning. Yet I would have loved to and benefited from an opportunity to go to college (after my rather easy but obligatory GED).
With tuition free college education, I could have done that and learned that simple differentiation much sooner.
The reason I quit HS so young even tho I was at the top of my class and had an average of 98.9 when I left, obviously had nothing to do with aptitude and everything to do with poverty, I had to quit to go to work to support myself (long story involving a drunk ass step-father and growing up poor even before I left).
I want so very, very much for the teenagers of today that are in the position I was in to have those opportunities I never had. I want every single impoverished or struggling middle class kid to have that opportunity if they want it, and I want them to have it without a lifelong cloud of debt over their heads that keeps them down, that keeps them impoverished even after acquiring great knowledge.
I want what kids in first world countries have that do in fact educate and take care of their people. Our nation would only grow much stronger if such a reasonable dream would become manifest.
Feel the burn, it can heal a dying second world oligarchy of a nation. Which unfortunately is the nation we have become.
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