Bernie Sanders on Education
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Back to the future of education
Free public university tuition, like we had 50 years ago
Q: If I may pick up on that point about free college, Hillary Clinton argues that she wouldn’t give free college to wealthy kids. Your reaction?
SANDERS: I believe that it is absurd that, in a highly competitive global economy, we have got hundreds of thousands of bright young people who are qualified to go to college, but can’t because their families lack the income. So, yes, I do believe that public colleges and universities should be tuition-free. Is this is a radical idea? Well, other countries around the world do that, because they know investing in their kids is good for their economy. So I do believe that we need a system, which is not free college education for all. It’s free tuition in public colleges and universities. I think it is simple, it’s straightforward. It exists in other countries and, in fact, 50 or 60 years ago, used to exist in the United States of America.