I agree with you. There&#x27;s no inherent reason why education should be getting more and more expensive. With all the technology we have and the large pool of highly educated potential teachers[1] it should actually be getting cheaper or better value for money.<p>But the explanation I&#x27;m giving is that the middle class like to use education as a filter that keeps the poor away from the nice white collar jobs.  So they are highly insensitive to price. Meanwhile, all the broken things about education (in terms of actual teaching&#x2F;learning) go unfixed.<p>[1] although there is an interesting argument that women who were previously forced to settle on teaching for a career are now going into industry instead (since industry became less sexist) , leading to a drop in teaching quality (especially for things like maths)