The Government Should Pay For College

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For if you suffer your people to be ill-educated, and their manners to be corrupted from their infancy, and then punish them for those crimes to which their first education disposed them, what else is to be concluded from this, but that you first make thieves and then punish them?
~Sir Thomas More 1530 A.D.

The United States of America should be required to educate its citizens. By signing this petition you agree that the first four years of college education in the United States of America shall be paid for by it's government in exchange for the student maintaining a minimum of a 2.5 GPA, participating in local or global community service, and working a minimum of ten hours a week.

"The whole object of education is...to develop the mind. The mind should be a thing that works."
~Sherwood Anderson

16 Signatures

  • Hollan Read
  • Brandon Martinson
  • Kurt Caldwell
    • Comments
    • I came up with this same idea for my comp 2 research and proposal essay, Everyone in the class thought it was a good idea.
  • andrea zeller
    • Comments
    • absolutley!
  • Bethany Ann
  • Dannah Laguitan
  • jessica
  • Eric Brown
    • Comments
    • Even if they regulate the cost from sky rocketing it would be great. Even paying for half. ANYTHING!
  • Jessica Beale
  • Miyuki Blatt
  • amanda afaese
  • W K Culberson
  • Bobby m. Sweikert
    • Comments
    • I Bilieve that there are some things that government has a responsibility to pay for certain things, and college is one of those things.
  • NEDRA JONES
  • shannon l townsend
    • Comments
    • This would reduce medicaid and foodstamps by allowing for an education first.