Silly Aber, education isn't for poor people
if they got educated, they might start thinking they had the same rights as rich people. Imagine the chaos!
( The Light in Chains don't touch the Pope's boner, Wed 27 Apr 2011, 9:52, 2 replies, latest was 15 years ago)

the problem isn't anything to do with rich or poor.
It's a societal failure to understand that higher education is not some right everyone has. It is a right of intellectual priviledge, not financial. If we accepted that, stopped trying to get everyone who can tie their fucking shoelaces together into uni, then we wouldn't have a HE system that cannot be supported by the state.

That, and the tories, of course.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 27 Apr 2011, 9:58, Reply)

the rich poor thing is stupid anyway
when it comes to this. A large proportion of people won't pay up front, but use loans, so it makes no difference what your circumstances are before you go to uni, you are still in the same boat.

My folks are reasonably high income middle-class, and as such I was screwed at uni because I get the max fees (at the time) and minimum loans etc. Poor people were a shitload better off than I was.
( Vipros. clever got me this far, then tricky got me in, Wed 27 Apr 2011, 10:00, Reply)

And stop reproducing!
Who's going to pay for our pensions. No, wait, if they have no education, they have no good jobs, they're on benefits... I see a flaw on this plan.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 27 Apr 2011, 10:01, Reply)