In this SeeThru post, Jay Schalin takes a look at Robert Samuels’s new book Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free and doesn’t like the idea. Samuels observes that the Finns have a fine education system where college is free and concludes that we ought to follow suit. But as Jay points out, free college in Sweden has not worked out very well.

“Free” college education would wind up like our wonderful experiment with free public housing — an utter shambles.