Joe Sinagra raises an important question about the cost-effectiveness of higher education for prospective college students in the United States today (“Is College Worth the Debt Incurred?,” Letters to the Editor, Suburban, March 24).
Of course, if we lived in a “we” society instead of a “me” society, we might be asking a different question: “Why aren’t we as a nation investing in higher education as do most of the other industrialized nations of the world, where higher education costs a nominal fee at most?” Could it be because we would rather begin outsourcing jobs that require a college education to foreign countries the way that we are currently exporting so many other types of jobs overseas?
If that’s the case, I would be very interested to know who the “we” are who are thinking this way and why.
Kenneth J. O’Dowd North Brunswick