When I was young I made a life-changing decision: I wouldn't worry about student debt. "They can't take the knowledge back from me," I reasoned. I was saddled with this debt until I was well into my forties. But my education (not my degree, which I barely valued at all) made all the difference in the world. Most people wouldn't make the decision I made, especially now that the size of student debts has soared. And that's the point of this article. "Putting this education out of reach for students who are already economically insecure is elitist and it is wrong. It will make us a smaller, meaner and stupider society." Every time tuition increases, every time the cost of books increases, every time a new barrier is put into place, we become a little smaller and a little meaner.
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