Before you claim a broken promise made by Gov. Pat Brown's administration in the master plan for higher education (Opinion, March 19), you may want to ask some questions. Could the generation of 1960 have ever imagined that:

• the population of California would increase fourfold in 40 years?

• California's factory/manufacturing base would become high technology and that jobs would be sent overseas?

• higher education would grow to nine UC campuses, 21 state universities and 88 community colleges at the cost of billions of dollars a year?

• California schools would be asked to pay, not just for their own kids, but for thousands of foreign students and illegal immigrants?

The promise of a college education has not been broken; it has been overwhelmed.

Ron Moser
San Jose