https://theintercept.com/2022/08/25/student-loans-debt-reaga...
“We are in danger of producing an educated proletariat. That’s dynamite! We have to be selective on who we allow to go through higher education.” -- 1970, Roger Freeman, a Hoover Institution economist and a key educational adviser to Nixon
https://files.eric.ed.gov/fulltext/EJ684842.pdf
Once elected, Mr. Reagan set the educational tone for his administration by
• calling for an end to free tuition for state college and university students
• annually demanding 20 percent across-the-board cuts in higher education funding
• repeatedly slashing construction funds for state campuses
• engineering the firing of Clark Kerr, the highly respected president of the University of California
• declaring that the state “should not subsidize intellectual curiosity"
Reagan also tried to end department of education
https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1985-01-29-mn-13948-...