david sugarman

A member of the Philip Greenspun's Homepage community since April 10, 1999

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April 10, 1999, on Tuition-free MIT:
your responses inspired me to take a look at our academia over the last two centuries. two hundred years ago we were an agrarian economy. University was for the well born and based on the English model. one hundred years ago we were an industrial economy. University was for the well born and based on the German model(as it is today). fifty years ago we were a scientific economy. in response to the communist challenge we became more egalitarian. University was for everyone. today we are an information economy. in response to the communist collapse we reverted to earlier times. University was for the well born(and its now necessary hirelings). in a class system the price of admission/tuition is necessarily high. if the upper echelons of government/academia/corporations form this class,what can we expect in the future? more consolidation, more monopoly, less free distribution of information, less change. the W...