June 25, 2026

Yesterday we learned of dreams crushed, opportunities lost, and future benefits for our society unrealized just because students came from families that lacked wealth. This is the type of news that infuriated W.E.B. DuBois and should anger us all. As the comment section for the article shows, too many people still "assume that only the wealthy have a real right to education".

It seems so self evident to me that just "being born is being given a right to college training". I personally never would have been able to go to college without support from Federal Financial Aid and I passionately believe that ever student who wants to put in the work for a college education should get it paid for by society.

When we don't allow people who want it access to a college education to have it, "the result is grotesque! We bury genius!". Meanwhile those with wealth have no problem sending "mediocrity and idiocy to college, gilded and crowned"