Bill Maher slams liberal push for 'free college,' "I'm not paying for that"

[anatta]

Colleges have turned into giant luxury daycare centers with overpaid babysitters anxious to indulge every student whim,” Maher said on Real Time.
“In the immortal words of her [Laurie Laughlin’s] daughter, Olivia Jade, ‘I don’t know how much school I’m going to attend … but I do want the experience of, like, game days and partying.'”

I know free college is a left-wing thing, but is it really liberal for someone who doesn’t go to college and makes less money to pay for people who do go and make more?” Maher asked.

Maher called college education mostly a “scam” and argued it's useless for most jobs and that trying to make it free isn’t the answer.

President Joe Biden recently rolled out a $1.8 trillion “American Families Plan” that aims to make community college tuition-free, which Maher criticized because it suggests education is a solution to most problems.

Maher referred to Biden’s plan as an endorsement of the idea that the more time people spend in school “staring at blackboards,” the better — which the host disagrees with.

“President Biden’s American Families Plan asks the taxpayers to pony up hundreds of billions so that everyone can go to college and billions more for subsidized childcare so our kids can go to school while we go to school,” Maher said.

“A wannabe librarian needs a master’s degree just to get an entry-level job filing books. I’ve heard this from nurses, teachers, and administrators, rolling their eyes when relating how they needed to take some bulls*** course in order to advance in their field when, really, they already learn what they need by working the job,” he said. “The answer isn’t to make college free. The answer is to make it more unnecessary, which it is for most jobs.”
https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/n...r-free-college

[Hawkeye10]

Its not so much that Universities now supply a bad education, it is that they supply the opposite of education, they are now religious institutions. .

Universities are now to be avoided if at all possible.

Anyone with a recent degree is suspect.

[Jack]

I think Maher was slamming the 4 year Colleges, and the idea that any brain-dead clown would be able to attend on the Tax Payers dime.
I don't think he was aiming at the 'Community College/Trade School' concept. Most High Schoolers can learn to be Tradesmen.


"The German vocational education and training system, also known as the dual training system, is highly recognized worldwide due to its combination of theory and training embedded in a real-life work environment."
https://www.bmbf.de/en/the-german-vo...stem-2129.html

Obama advocated for the same thing.

[AProudLefty]

"I know free college is a left-wing thing"



Good job Boris with your OP.

[AProudLefty]

I think Maher was slamming the 4 year Colleges, and the idea that any brain-dead clown would be able to attend on the Tax Payers dime.
I don't think he was aiming at the 'Community College/Trade School' concept. Most High Schoolers can learn to be Tradesmen.


"The German vocational education and training system, also known as the dual training system, is highly recognized worldwide due to its combination of theory and training embedded in a real-life work environment."
https://www.bmbf.de/en/the-german-vo...stem-2129.html

Obama advocated for the same thing.

He was being sarcastic.

[anatta]

I think Maher was slamming the 4 year Colleges, and the idea that any brain-dead clown would be able to attend on the Tax Payers dime.
I don't think he was aiming at the 'Community College/Trade School' concept. Most High Schoolers can learn to be Tradesmen.


"The German vocational education and training system, also known as the dual training system, is highly recognized worldwide due to its combination of theory and training embedded in a real-life work environment."
https://www.bmbf.de/en/the-german-vo...stem-2129.html

Obama advocated for the same thing.

Maher is especially down on useless college degrees -
but yes that is the typical 4 year liberal arts degree - not community or trade
gotta love his wit:

In the immortal words of her [Laurie Laughlin’s] daughter, Olivia Jade, ‘I don’t know how much school I’m going to attend … but I do want the experience of, like, game days and partying.'”

[anatta]

He was being sarcastic.

he was being humorous (being a comedian as well) , not sarc.
read his full remarks, he's not pulling his punches

[Jack]

He was being sarcastic.

"Obama calls for focus on vocational training"
https://www.reuters.com/article/us-u...81C1Z620120213

"The centerpiece of the education budget was an $8 billion Community College to Career Fund, which aims to train 2 million workers for jobs in fields such as high-tech manufacturing, clean energy and healthcare."

[Jack]

Maher is especially down on useless college degrees -
but yes that is the typical 4 year liberal arts degree - not community or trade
gotta love his wit:

In the immortal words of her [Laurie Laughlin’s] daughter, Olivia Jade, ‘I don’t know how much school I’m going to attend … but I do want the experience of, like, game days and partying.'”

He was being honest. A Day Care Center for the Privileged.

[anatta]

He was being honest. A Day Care Center for the Privileged.

well the first thing to do is kill all the lawyers

[Nordberg]

Most industrial countries supply free or very cheap education because it is beneficial to the future of the nation. Maher's problem is the cost and who the cost falls on.

[Hawkeye10]

That the Universities have catastrophically failed I dare say is almost universally known in the circles I run.

How is it that you still dont know?

Its an important question.

[Hawkeye10]

I witnessed this today.....they rip the universities to shreds: