I just had a quick flash of insight and I'm just putting it down here. Why do we insist on free education for all? Why do the well-off people or even those who could afford a minimal fee not charged? Why does it have to be free?
Why not have free education only for those who truly need it? I just thought of President Clinton sending Chelsea to public schools - why shouldn't the Clintons be charged for going to any school?
I'm not thinking that everyone pay full tuition - just that a user fee be charged for education. We now have this overgrown dinosaur called education - something that basically has been done the same way for 100 years and we think it should be free for all. We have a school close by to me, I think it's in Deroche, where most of the kids are First Nations and this school has basically no supplies, library, etc. The districts that collect huge amount of taxes should actually be paying into a pot - the neediest districts, i.e., lower-income - should be able to draw more than the 'richest'. The richest can use user fees to make up the shortfall in their money. Same thing for health care in Canada, by the way.
Now that I've solved the world's economic woes - I'm gonna have lunch.
