You write :
>what students are buying is the *opportunity* to learn,
>rather than knowledge itself. Academia is nothing other than a complex
>system of learning opportunities, replete with many ways of both limiting
>access to it and providing entry. Tuition is essentially an entry fee
>that brings with it no guarantee of results, just as paying a doctor to
>diagnose and treat an illness does not guarantee a cure.
I like your idea, but do you know of any other *opportunity* that we buy?
Is there a market of opportunities? And how does it work? Could we say
that when I buy a car, I buy the *opportunity* to go around town?
I don't know the american system. In Europe (at least in France), we *buy*
these *opportunities* with good academic results not with money. I guess
it's the same in the states. So=8A would this market work with teacher's
appreciations rather than $$?
-- Bernard Girard <bgirard@Dialup.FranceNet.fr>