What is the fundamental purpose of learning, particularly advanced learning, beyond the high school level? Is the purpose found in self-improvement and higher development?
Trade/business/occupation skills - yes in many cases - the needs/applications are rather clear and the concomitant rewards rather obvious and immediate. Why would any upstanding and intelligent person who takes this productive route, engaging in the world of good pay in exchange for good work, ever imagine that he/she does not have to repay a loan on the agreed schedule? Antithetical to the fundamental norm.
For those who choose higher education for reasons aside from the above - actual higher learning that includes at least a strong basic grounding in arts/sciences/social sciences/philosophy - ostensibly enabling ability to engage life and society on ethical and moral grounds - how could they even begin to take the position that the loans they promised to repay should suddenly be borne by some other unknown persons? Could that expectation be an outcome of true higher learning? How so?
Thus, what type of persons are left to expect - even insist upon - escape from such obligations they assume - such promises they make? And even worse, what kind of person tries to implement such an illicit ploy, with the money of others, simply to obtain votes. The depraved being used by the depraved.
