education. we should not be paying for education, public education in particular in the richest country in the world. i am someone who has worked hard to amass a considerable level of educational privilege, i completed a ph.d.. i m also a millennial who heard the lesson that if i work really hard, college should be free. and so right now while we have so much around what we have known traditionally and have accepted about the ways in which public education works to support social disorder in this conversation, we should be having honest conversations about the value of public education, the cost of public education and institutions have a responsibility as well: i want to lift up wade state university. it s the third largest institution in michigan. wayne state has undergone a program to forgive debt for students, acknowledging that some 60% of individuals who have pursued a degree have it completed.