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Yeah, people think of it too much like free money falling from the sky instead of the investment that it should be to justify the theft via taxation that's paying for it.
Education is one of the best investments a country can make. It pays for itself many times over. Anybody complaining about education expenditure from a fiscal perspective is an idiot.
An educated populace is also key for a healthy democracy. Oh, maybe that's why conservatives don't like it...
The US isn't even making that investment, students have to bleed out the ass for it and there's still people out there complaining about the curriculum they're choosing
If I was paying €10 000 a year for college I'd damn well expect to learn whatever the fuck I want in it
Right, but while you were trying your damnedest to get your quip in you seem to have overlooked the fact that that's literally what we're talking about - investing in education and ensuring it's not wasted on pointless pursuits.
You unironically said "theft via taxation" so you are just about the last person I want to hear from concerning education.
An educated populace is good. Yes, even in the fields that you personally don't see value in.
You always have to wonder how many paragraphs until JFK jr when you hear someone say that