Most of our colleges and universities depend on government funding to a high degree, especially student aid.  They cost so much that students have to borrow from the federal government.

That line of thinking is mistaken. College doesn’t have to be extraordinarily expensive, and private financing is available, sometimes through the schools themselves. That’s the point that Harrison Hutton makes in today’s Martin Center article.

He writes:

It is within the context of this undemanding and indulgent relationship with government that universities, especially those at the top of the academic food chain, have grown more intensely ideological. One solution to the dilemma posed by this deterioration is a higher-education sector fully independent of federal aid, as exemplified by schools such as Hillsdale College and Patrick Henry College, which have rejected government funding to offer an alternative to ideologically captured institutions.

Many colleges that have been captured by the left and now complain that they’re being put upon by the Trump administration ought to pay attention. They could be free to indoctrinate all they want by saying “no” to federal funding.

Read the whole thing.