Unfortunately the industry adapted to the financial aid, and and by now the price of tuition has completely gobbled up any discount the aid may have provided. Sure, people who couldn't have gone to school in the past are able to do so, but many of them are getting saddled with a crippling amount of debt.
I know that the price of tuition should increase naturally, as all prices do, but its been doubling the rate of inflation and that's fucked up.
There are good aspects to the education system, but there's also a lot of good reasons to be cynical.
Scholarships and grants have also been rising, and the net price -what people actually pay -has been rising much more slowly than that. For private colleges, it has actually fallen since 2006/2007: http://www.npr.org/blogs/money/2012/05/22/153316565/the-pric...
I know that the price of tuition should increase naturally, as all prices do, but its been doubling the rate of inflation and that's fucked up.
There are good aspects to the education system, but there's also a lot of good reasons to be cynical.