President Truman's Commission on
Higher Education Proposed Free College

"Today the average American of 20 - 24 years of age has completed 12.1 years of schooling, an all-time high... Last week the President's Commission on Higher Education issued a report aimed at pushing the average still higher. It urged that free public education be extended through the first two years of college."

Even as early as 1894 socialism was recognized as wishful thinking.