Based on the full quote, it seems to me that this is a result of both Mitt Romney’s poor communication skills and the purposeful use of meaningless words in an attempt to simply not upset anyone. I think he was making a poor attempt to take advantage of this rare agreement with Obama and trying to give an impression of cooperation/bipartisanship by not saying anything too extreme. Unfortunately for him, though, he’s pretty transparent and not so good at it. Stating that “this is a land of opportunity land of opportunity for every single person” and that people “get as much education as they can afford” are completely contradictory statements; when put together, they quite obviously mean absolutely nothing. He probably did not intend for that statement to come out the way that it did, though. It seems to me that this was a very poor choice of words that failed to communicate the moderate and very vague point that he was trying to make (low interest rates on student loans help students to afford to continue their education), even though he was clearly BSing.
Has there ever been a candidate who has put his foot in his mouth so much and insulted so many people in such a short period of time? I mean, at least the biggest consequences of George Dubya’s word vomit were Bushism of the Day calendars.
Oh, and to answer your actual question: Definitely not. To suggest so is completely preposterous and would completely collapse the education system in addition to completely dividing the classes. Education is already way too expensive- if I could only get a college education that I could actually afford, I probably wouldn’t be getting one at all.