Any Country That Pays Students for Their Grades Will Dominate the World's Economy
The talented are the only ones who belong in college, not the ambitious-imbecile brownnoses and Preppies who are there now. We should treat superior 18-year-old students like baseball treats superior 18-year-old athletes. In that sector, the best are given a huge signing bonus to put themselves through the minor leagues, which is baseball's equivalent of college education.
Yankee shortstop Derek Jeter got a million dollars to sign. Over and above that and his salary for 20 years, his corporate team's return on that investment was $250 million. So our brain-dependent corporations should do the same thing, not just tuition, but upscale living expenses.
Free tuition is inadequate, which is why our captive media focus on it and never mention giving students a salary better than they can expect working anywhere else at that age. I challenge the plutocrats who mandate this slave education to just pay their brats' tuition and give them little or nothing to live on. Even with that free tuition, richkids will drop out, or even refuse to go to college at all, at the same rate as everyone else.
Imagine a superior 18-year-old athlete being treated the way our most valuable students are. He would be told to put himself through the minor leagues on his own, working low-paying off-season jobs and taking out loans. Many of the most-talented would quit sports altogether.