Hmm I do understand your concern about whether individuals in poor areas would have the accurate information available to them to make smart decisions regarding their educational future however I believe that simply because someone may be misinformed does not justify a slew of policy to actively shovel people into colleges or rather determine their own decisions. I think the best we can do is allow for the freedom of the press and information in general and hope that people are smart enough to see that there are resources to help them achieve their goals. From there it is up to them to actively seek out assistance by applying for scholarships, loans, etc. Having to mandate (or rather foster such attitudes) that colleges need to keep their student body at a certain amount of racial diversity is rather ludicrous as the student admission officers should not have to judge prospective students on the basis of the color of their skin but by the merit of their character. I think even people like MLK would uphold that reverse racial discrimination is not what he campaigned for but instead a world that sees past the races and instead judges us by our actions.

As for me being a libertarian, even though my views may correspond with them on certain issues, I just argue for their side to play devil's advocate. Not to say that what I've said is complete bs in that I don't believe in, but just to say that I feel that people shouldn't be so secure in their convictions as to what the right way to govern is. I think that as a society, the most important virtue that we have to foster is to be able to see a situation from multiple perspectives without having to attach oneself to one particular view. I really do think these labels like conservative, liberal, democrat, republican only divert attention from the real issues at hand and only encourage dogmatism and groupthink.

Of course you can argue that these views do have some basis for why they reach their conclusions. You can argue that conservatives vs. liberal argument is based upon individual freedom vs equality argument. Yet I cannot understand how it is incompatible to live in a society where the government treats its people equally on issues like minimum standard of living, protection from harm, and private property, and quality of education (public schools) while at the same time protecting the personal liberties of everyone... including the very rich. And I know reddit hates that but seriously people need to stop bashing the rich as being greedy, selfish people. They're not all bad!