I play devil&#x27;s advocate with a Cuban friend sometimes: an expensive education is better than a free one because it shows that our culture highly values knowledge, at least in terms of money.  When education is free or cheap, it is devalued, at least in terms of money.  It&#x27;s a bit of a tongue-in-cheek argument but I think that it&#x27;s good that people highly value education and it would be even better if the tuition increase would trickle down into pay for professors and post-docs.  The high tuition does already trickle down to scholarships for good students, at least in personal experience.