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"Harvard University is the oldest institution of higher education in the United States. It was founded in 1636, a mere sixteen years after the Mayflower landed at Cape Cod in present-day Massachusetts (Archibald 2002). By the time of the Revolutionary War, there were nine chartered degree-granting colleges established in the colonies, which is remarkable considering the vastly wealthier and more populated mother England had only Cambridge and Oxford to educate her students (Trow 1988). The colonial colleges—Harvard, William and Mary, Collegiate School (which became Yale), Academy of Philadelphia (University of Philadelphia), College of New Jersey (Princeton), King’s College (Columbia), College of Rhode Island (Brown), Queen’s College (Rutgers), and Dartmouth—were, however, modeled upon Cambridge and Oxford and, like their English models, in many cases required religious affiliation. Transplanted Puritan, Presbyterian, as well as Baptist sects variously exercised control over specific schools while William and Mary and King’s College were primarily under the auspices of the Church of England."
http://www.randomhistory.com/1-50/039deg...
Far from government starting higher education, it was private (and religious) efforts!
With apologies to HC Andersen:-)
You know colleges did not exist until Abraham Lincoln. Humm, Hamilton went to college, but they did not exist yet. How does that work.
I often say Obama is so smart its what makes him scary. He has to know better than this. He just thinks no one watching is smart enough to call him on it? How little does he think of the intellect of the American people?
Sorry, I really tried, but I can NOT watch the lying, disgusting son of a ................
I get the thing he says at the end about having a voice and debt, but when you think about it's lame.
If he's saying some policy helps a poor child go to school, and that helps my children live in a better and more just world, and it leads to more economic growth in the future, *I'm completely for it*.
But this thing about taking a little bit of money people make so that people pay a little less while going to school, just seems so trifling. If you're not dirt poor, it's just moving coins around on a board. It's giving you and indirect subsidy that you can pay back, as it were, as soon as you start using that education to make money. Those kids would do much better by just finding someone with a need (grass to mow, computers to fix, etc) and doing it for money, rather than get involved in politically supporting a complex scheme of moving money around.