And we should subsidize education? . . .

And we should subsidize education? . . . I would be surprised if my students studied 14 hours a month.

Education
Leisure College, USA: The Decline in Student Study Timeby Philip Babcock, Mindy MarksAmerican Enterprise Institute
August 05, 2010

In 1961, the average full-time student at a four-year college in the United States studied about twenty-four hours per week, while his modern counterpart puts in only fourteen hours per week. Students now study less than half as much as universities claim to require. This dramatic decline in study time occurred for students from all demographic subgroups, for students who worked and those who did not, within every major, and at four-year colleges of every type, degree structure, and level of selectivity. Most of the decline predates the innovations in technology that are most relevant to education and thus was not driven by such changes. The most plausible explanation for these findings is that standards have fallen at postsecondary institutions in the United States.

URL: www.aei.org/docLib/07-EduO-Aug-2010g.pdf