The article on sticker price says that parents don’t understand how much money they can receive from financial aid, and therefore unfairly restrict their child’s college options. Isn’t it more than fair to assume that maybe parents don’t want to take the risk of underestimation of the expected financial aid that they are quoted at time of FAFSA filing?

Are advancements in technology and media coverage of successful moguls who lack high school or college educations strong contributors to why people don’t feel that college educations are necessary anymore to get a good job?

In the Critique of the Liberal Arts, there is a claim that even computer engineering students can cheaply teach themselves all they need to know without going to college. However, it’s assuming that all the information on the internet is true and that the easy availability/accessibility to these resources are common knowledge among these students.  Are blatant overlooks like this one in the article a measure of how inaccurate much of its criticism is?

Nussbaum claims that parents view a pursuit for a degree in the arts or literature as a wasted one because there is no money/job in it. She also says that education in these fields are also necessary to advance democracy. What are some features of an education in these fields (which an education in science lacks) that can help advance democracy?