This thread provides some interesting snapshots of how it was/is done, the costs and the yields. Have there been dramatic changes in the reasons, means and costs since higher ed choices made in the 1950s. Why?
What were the primary drivers of such choices, and the costs, 70 years ago as compared to the contemporary? Have there been changes in the fundamental reasons for becoming more learned? Are the definitions and outcomes/rewards of "learned" different.
Not that the $$ side is unimportant (for it is), but in the more broad context, the current stupidity and scuffling about costs seems a mark of poorly educated society.
