Or should I just start casually addressing how nearly everything in society has turned into a pathetic money-making scheme that under-delivers on every single broken promise.
Oh and creates GOVERNMENT DEPENDENCY aka slavery.
Why aren't textbooks free? Government funded video archives of recorded lectures would not be nearly as expensive to produce as all these wasteful expenditures for gender programs in Pakistan.
Even uploading lectures to a corporate video site could at least monetize them with ads.
The answer is: Nobody wants "free education". They just want to scam people into thinking they do so they can scam them more.
Is anyone else sick of this?
Why am I pretending to debate people who aren't interested in actually providing professional and classical "education" to as many people as possible on the lowest cost possible? Or even debating what's useful in schools.
Everybody who goes into government always wants the most wasteful, expensive, least efficient, self-destructive thing possible.
Can we just address this and fix it?
Why are people learning about sex, race, drugs, and "black lives" at all instead of basic skills in economics, budget, shooting, sewing, basic electronics, etc?
The "education" industry is ruining everybody.
This is a horrible idea. What incentive will people have to write textbooks if you don’t allow them to profit from it? Or are you going to have the government pay them like a socialist.
You may say that you’re forced to buy a textbook your professor chooses and they make outrageously high profit knowing that you’ll do that, and I would agree, but making textbooks “free” wouldn’t help.
Public K-12 and Unis use textbooks too. They add hundreds, sometimes thousands, per year unnecessarily to the cost of TAXPAYER funded education.
Algebra doesn't change every 5-7 years and require all new textbooks. Neither does English Composition, Art History, and many other subjects.
Textbooks are ground zero for kickbacks and Taxpayer fleecing and Social Justice Propaganda. Not to mention EduFads ("Whole Math, Sight Reading, Diversity").
Open source textbooks created and issued by the state would cost a fraction to develop and deploy than Private Textbooks which sell mostly due to kickbacks and propaganda.
Additionally, in Red States the textbooks would be under popular control. Private Textbooks are generally written to appeal to Leftwing Teacher's Union and Social Science Communist Teachers and Professors, along with Board Members with long connections to the EduOctopus.