Comment by tossandthrow

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).