[简答题]This is my colleague, Frank.

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A) My colleague at Democracy in America draws attention to an ongoing debate over the nature of higher education, and, in particular, steady increases in the cost of getting one. The question of the hour is: is higher education a bubble
B) Consider: If you can only afford to go to a state university, don’t be too annoyed. Except this: Kevin Drum went to a state university that does not exist anymore. When he graduated from Cal State Long Beach in 1981, he paid $160 in fees. If he graduated from the same institution today, the tuition he would have paid for this year would be $4335. They officially call it "tuition" now, because it’s not meant to be a nominal (名义上的) "fee" anymore. It’s simply the price you pay for your education, as a customer, and next year it will be higher, a lot higher. Unless the direction of things changes soon, it will be $6450. And the year after that It will be even highe