Manas Ratha

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January 22, 2000, on Tuition-free MIT:
This article is so ridiculous I dont even know why I bother to respond. But I'll keep it as short as possible. 1. Free education reduces the "loss due to failure" which everyone knows (cause its been proven repeatedly) reduces motivation. 2. Free education would make every aspiring engineer apply to MIT, and provide incentive to do anything (lies, falsification, etc included) to get admitted. This will reduce the quality of the incoming class and increase admission uncertainity and politics. 3. Face it, you dont get something for nothing. If you dont think the payback isnt worth it, go to some lower cost college. There are plenty which provide a good education. 4. Hardly anyone comes out with a "$100,000 loan." Enough financial aid, summer job opportunities and (relatively) high paying part-time campus jobs are available. If you want to be fair to students, propose that students be paid at par with what corporations would pay students for similar work (typically, twice the c...