British MP Says Education Is A Right And Tuition Should Be Free

Posted • September 24, 2024: It seems the idea of free college isn't exclusive to America. We're old enough to remember Al Gore campaigning on sending every American student to college, despite many of them having a lack of aptitude and the trades being in need of apprentices. Why does college cost so much in the first place? Townhall's own Katie Pavlich was fact-checked back in 2019 for saying that Sen. Elizabeth Warren was paid $400,000 by Harvard to teach one class. PolitiFact found that Warren was paid $429,981 in salary from Harvard during 2010 and 2011, and Pavlich didn't take into account "the other work Warren was doing at that time." Warren's husband also made $402,897 in 2018 as a Harvard law professor.

But what if like so many other things (e.g., broadband internet) a college education is a right? British Member of Parliament Zarah Sultana brought her latest student loan statement to the floor. She should cross the Mexican border and have Joe Biden pay it off with American taxpayer dollars. -- Zarah Sultana MP @zarahsultana: “Students shouldn't have to pay tuition fees this year. Or next year. Or any year. That's because education is a right, not a commodity. Four years ago I took my student loan statement to Parliament to make this point.” -- So teachers and professors are slaves. Cool. If students don't pay tuition, how do professors get paid? How do the maintenance workers keep the campus up and running? Obviously, it would be left to taxpayers to pay the tuition, which would be set by the government, along with professors' salaries. A college education is not a right. (…)

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