Comment by oh_fiddlesticks
7 months ago
I sort of understand where you're coming from, but on the other hand, if parents aren't to be expected to provide for the children they (most commonly) decided to give life to, then who in your view should bear the financial cost of that decision?
It should be a public good as an educated populous is a public benefit.
This is about MIT, which along with their Ivy League peers probably represent symbolism and no more than a dent into the total number of education programmes carried out in the US.
But again, hearing advisors on personal finance talking about saving for your kids education as a high priority is so insane for me and is completely contrary to what I would expect from a meritocratic society (which I know the US aspires to be).