• Pechente@feddit.org
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    3 days ago

    Except that most of Western Europe for example has essentially free tuition, exactly because people recognize how important education is. Germany for example even has interest free loans for students on top of very low tuition fees (500€ / year) and subsidized housing and transport.

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      All my life I’ve heard that interest free student loans wouldn’t work because folks wouldn’t pay them and it made a sad sense to me… I’m angry-relieved to hear that isn’t the case.