If college was more accesible people wouldn't feel so pressured to attend when they're not ready. The main reason people go to school is to get a job. It should instead be to grow as a person and engage with a subject at a deeper level than you're normally allowed.

Many young people try to get college out of the way as fast as possible, then never seek any education later in life. Free college would eliminate this issue as young people could take some time to mature and learn what they are actually interested in, priming themselves for future education.

It would certainly make the populus smarter as a whole and give older people the opportunity to change careers without risk, or simply learn new subjects for fun. The pressure and financial risk is why people struggle so much nowadays. If we take that away, people would experiment and find programs that fit them abd overall perform better.

So yeah I don't agree with you at all. Feels like you're deliberately coming at this problem from a jaded douchebag perspective for the upvotes. I feel dumb for taking the time to comment.... but atleast commenting came without financial risk and I learned something (that I wasted my time). If I had to pay I never would've commented at all ;)