In the U.S. certainly for a while that's been true (especially true of private universities and colleges, although even a few decades ago in state schools were pretty decent). However, until very recently in various places around the world higher education has been fairly inexpensive, or even free.
The relative recent rash of for-profit schools have further ingrained this.
Getting teachers and educators paid != try to squeeze every bit of profit out of students.
My interpretation of Chonnawonga's comment is that there has been a transition of focus from education's primary goal of educating and imparting knowledge and learning (paying the teachers enough for a liveable wage), to 'education' as a business where the primary goal is to profit and make money for the bureaucratic overhead.
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In the U.S. certainly for a while that's been true (especially true of private universities and colleges, although even a few decades ago in state schools were pretty decent). However, until very recently in various places around the world higher education has been fairly inexpensive, or even free. The relative recent rash of for-profit schools have further ingrained this.
Getting teachers and educators paid != try to squeeze every bit of profit out of students. My interpretation of Chonnawonga's comment is that there has been a transition of focus from education's primary goal of educating and imparting knowledge and learning (paying the teachers enough for a liveable wage), to 'education' as a business where the primary goal is to profit and make money for the bureaucratic overhead.