Economic Activism and Progressive Living

I was curious, because I support changing the model of educational financing in the US to favor a tuition-free-with-a-stipend approach to higher education - somewhat like Germany has. This change is really about establishing equality of opportunity for everyone. Besides, if Germany can do it, why can't the US? (Equality of opportunity is possibly not what is really desired in the US, but that would be a tangential discussion.)

So, the nature of this change would be to establish the act of getting an education as the student's sole work and focus. The personal responsibility portion of this approach is the requirement that the students actually perform by achieving good grades.

I realize that not all people will see the above approach as a reasonable approach, though. (Have you ever looked at the manner in which higher education is accomplished in other countries?) What would you think about such a change as described above?

From a practical standpoint, what you wrote upthread makes complete sense. It seems unlikely that change will ever be achieved without protest, though. A debt strike might be the sole means left for those who want change, or it might only damage those who engage in it. To me, it seems that our country is betraying our youth by burdening them with debt in the name of a pitfall-fraught pursuit in which they are told they should engage if they want to have a successful life.

Anyway, as before, I am just curious what others think.