From: utzoo!decvax!ucbvax!ARPAVAX:CAD:teklabs!zehntel!sytek!menlo70!hao!hplabs!hplabsb!soreff
Newsgroups: net.followup
Title: Re: "re: Education as a right"
Article-I.D.: hplabsb.1039
Posted: Mon Nov  1 09:41:39 1982
Received: Thu Nov  4 02:25:11 1982

In response to Bruce Cohen's suggestion of
  (a) Some sort of skilled national service as a way to pay back higher
education costs for those who cannot now afford them.
  (b) Said national service providing a pool of cheap skilled labor for
local governments, schools, hospitals etc.

I think that the idea of having someone pay back educational costs with
post-graduate labor is a reasonable and feasible one, but you can't do it
with labor at institutions which cannot now afford skilled labor. The
costs of education are ultimately real dollars paid for salaries, equipment
, maintenance of buildings etc. Those dollars must be paid by some institution
that has the dollars in the first place. If the person being educated is
paying back his/her loans with labor then the institution that is getting
this labor is presumably paying the market wage for the person, but paying
it back to the educational institution from which the person came. This is
a simplified view, omitting intermediate loans, tax effects etc.
                                    -Jeffrey Soreff