Yeah, free 4 year education is a freaking joke, all that is going to lead to is more lifelong "academics", history students and art majors. I am all for free trade schools though or 2 years of community college. Let people go get a skill (assuming they meet certain academic standards) and then let them enter the workforce with a useful skill/degree or they can then go on to get their bachelors (and take out 2 years less in loans) I came out of school with over 60k in debt, I will have it completely paid off in the next 6 months for a total of 80k or so, it builds character. If you don't want to pay off student loans, then don't go out and get student loans!