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Ideal_Rock
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Yssie|1391314080|3606221 said:I think I worded my post poorly - I'm horrified, but not by the fact that people choose to go to college and incur this sort of debt - it's the fact that anyone *has* to make that choice at all that I object to, viscerally. My family has always valued higher education and instilled that in me, and I applaud anyone who chooses to educate himself beyond the minimum necessity!! But it's outrageous that it should come with such a price tag - wherever you go, however many degrees you pursue I know exactly how much my parents shelled out for my private brand-name education and I was horrified by that number, too, at the time, but it's only after I started working that I fully understood just how much of a sacrifice that must have been for them. I am also genuinely awed by the resolve it must have taken to pay those loans off so substantially and so quickly - that takes incredible responsibility and commitment and I can certainly see how one could benefit positively in terms of learning money- and time-management to handle it!
Yssie I understood where you were going with it. I'm with the above poster that at the time I just didn't know better. My parents werent around to guide me so I knew I would take college loans on I just never knew how much, or how repayment worked etc. It was a rude awakening. And in the 8 years I have been out of college it seems the majority of schools have gone way up. I fear for how much I will actually have to save for my 2 kids. It realy does make a house payment look like peanuts.
Honestly I would love to live in a place like New Zeland (i believe) where education is paid for and everyone has access to it. I know that would never work in the USA but I still love the idea.