Free University and We Don’t Even Know It
I’ve long believed that post-secondary education should be free for bright, poor kids. And although there’s room for differences over what constitutes “poor” and “bright” (I’ve got a strict-ish definition of the former, less so the latter), it seems to me that this is a sentiment with which most people agree. But here’s the thing: in actual fact, there are an awful lot of bright poor kids already going to university for free, and nobody seems to notice. The problem