Answer by Ron Paul, Former Congressman from Texas, on Quora, I think the first thing we have to do to solve these problems with education is to recognize that the federal government should not be the director right now. We have a Department of Education spending billions of dollars. Many students think that the only way they can survive is to go to college, get a degree and run up a debt and then leave college with a $50,000, $60,000, or $100,000 debt. Then there are special loans where a student isn’t even allowed to declare bankruptcy. All of these loans are very … Continue reading Just How Rotten Is Public Education?