re: A college education for all, including free college studies as being promoted by some politicians.

If one person stands up in the stadium, he sees the game better, but if they all stand up, they don’t all see the game better.
As long as – you know, if you have a degree and the other guy doesn’t, then you get ahead of him in the employment line. But we’re not going to all get ahead of each other in the employment line by all getting degrees.

Thomas Sowell, 1995
American economist and social theorist
Senior Fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford University.