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From the Ted Talk by Sajay Samuel: How college loans exploit students for profit

Unscramble the Blue Letters

So what do we do? What if students and ptaners treated higher euadtcion as a consumer product? Everybody else seems to. Then, like any other csneomur product, you would demand to know what you're paying for. When you buy mcnieeids, you get a list of side effects. When you buy a higher educational product, you should have a warning label that allows consumers to choose, make informed choices. When you buy a car, it tells you how many miles per gallon to expect. Who knows what to expect from a degree say, in cnadaain Studies. There is such a thing, by the way.

Open Cloze

So what do we do? What if students and _______ treated higher _________ as a consumer product? Everybody else seems to. Then, like any other ________ product, you would demand to know what you're paying for. When you buy _________, you get a list of side effects. When you buy a higher educational product, you should have a warning label that allows consumers to choose, make informed choices. When you buy a car, it tells you how many miles per gallon to expect. Who knows what to expect from a degree say, in ________ Studies. There is such a thing, by the way.

Solution

  1. parents
  2. medicines
  3. consumer
  4. education
  5. canadian

Original Text

So what do we do? What if students and parents treated higher education as a consumer product? Everybody else seems to. Then, like any other consumer product, you would demand to know what you're paying for. When you buy medicines, you get a list of side effects. When you buy a higher educational product, you should have a warning label that allows consumers to choose, make informed choices. When you buy a car, it tells you how many miles per gallon to expect. Who knows what to expect from a degree say, in Canadian Studies. There is such a thing, by the way.

Frequently Occurring Word Combinations

ngrams of length 2

collocation frequency
higher education 7
high school 5
student loan 3
colorado state 2
college grad 2
student debt 2
sales pitch 2
college grads 2
engineering student 2

Important Words

  1. buy
  2. canadian
  3. car
  4. choices
  5. choose
  6. consumer
  7. consumers
  8. degree
  9. demand
  10. education
  11. educational
  12. effects
  13. expect
  14. gallon
  15. higher
  16. informed
  17. label
  18. list
  19. medicines
  20. miles
  21. parents
  22. paying
  23. product
  24. side
  25. students
  26. studies
  27. tells
  28. treated
  29. warning