Free education for all...

The Campaign for America's Future wants you to feel that all children should be permitted to attend college, regardless the ability of their parents to pay. Specifically, they say:

• The Institute for America’s Future calls on the federal government to increase funding for higher education. Funding should occur in the form of grants and subsidized loans. It is a crime that a Pell Grant covered 84% of college costs in 1974 and now only covers 39%. States must also increase their support for institutions of higher learning, but given the recent financial crisis among states, it is the federal government that must play a lead role in supporting higher education.

In other words, they are socialists who believe in government education as well as some individuals being taxed to pay for the education of other people's children.

Since ability to pay is no longer a valid criteria to determine college eligibility, should aptitude or achievement be used?

Isn't it fair to say that if every kid should be allowed to attend college, whether or not they can pay, then every kid should be allowed to attend Yale whether or not they can pass the rigorous entrance standards?