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Bernie can't come soon enough.

For Bernie to work, we have to restructure education to be more from the 1980s and 1970s. You won't have private rooms with private baths. You won't have school creating new pool and phsycial fitness megaplexes. You will have 2-4 people per room with a common shower.

I'm not saying this is wrong. I'm saying that the quality of life will have to go down. When you picture a Bernie school, you need to picture Animal House. School becomes focused on school. Anything else the students have to come up with.

Or, better, you will have school divorced from 'lifestyle' which is completely unnecessary and wasted money. You will have students of all age groups (since it is free) and students who take classes in the evening after work and many students who save money by living at home as well as many students who find cheap residences together exactly as they do today. The school could provide dormitories if they break even but only then.

Why should the school provide housing at all? It is there to provide an education.

Good? A large percentage of my friends dropped out of college freshmen or sophomore year because they were there to have fun and were not focused on school.

Hell I wasnt that focused on school because there was a gym, an event every night, and four or five extra curricular to choose from. The most focused I ever was in college was in a couple community college classes I took over a summer. I wasnt friends with the people in those classes, I showed up a couple times a week, did the work, and went home. I wish all colleges were like that.

Interestingly, it's been found that Collaboration is the Key to education. While you can do well in college without knowing or befriending them, you should do better when collaborating within a community of learners.

Kreijns, K., Kirschner, P. A., & Jochems, W. (2003). Identifying the pitfalls for social interaction in computer-supported collaborative learning environments: a review of the research. Computers in Human Behavior, 19(3), 335-353. doi:10.1016/s0747-5632(02)00057-2

Bernie wanted to tax daytrading/Wallstreet to fund college education. I like this idea but it would probably cause the stock market to crash.

He can try, but where there's a tax, the wealthy will find a way to avoid paying it.

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