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education to create well-rounded citizens. I don't think four-year universities should be job training centers. I hate listening to conservatives demean the humanities because they believe people majoring in those programs are wasting their time. We are increasingly ignorant about our country and about Western civilization because we have devalued the humanities.

At the same time, encouraging more and more young people to go to four-year universities is sheer stupidity, given how many of them will take out loans and never receive degrees. Loan forgiveness is fine...if it is paired with mandated raising of entry requirements, a return to stressing SAT/ACT scores, and eliminating programs/majors devoid of any academic rigor, many of which proclaim their political ends right on their webpages. Taxpayers should not be subsidizing that garbage. Tuitions also must be capped by state legislatures and budgets held steady or cut. All you need do is walk around your local public university and see all sorts of frivolous spending. Taxpayers and private sector workers have had to do more with less, relative to inflation and cost of living, and so should higher ed. As with K-12 education, more spending does not result in increased student academic performance and knowledge. Hiring more administrators, building new stadiums, creating more Club Med residence halls, and building new buildings make no student smarter. If your state is like mine, and it probably is, you have several four-year state universities that should be closed because they have low enrollment and have high percentages of students who never complete degrees. It will ultimately fall on state legislatures to step up.