Violence never serves its master... yet one has to ask if access to higher education should be based on money or merit. I think that after some thoughts most would go for merit. We should take time to define merit as a society but at the end of the day, money is a criteria that through history has led to much sufferings. 

 As for the feasibility of it, well, many countries do not have tuition fees as they based their right of attendance on a mix between passion, hard work, and talent and decided that for those individuals, they are willing to pay the price. This has the great collateral of having those who attend higher education strictly for the pedigree it confers to them, do something more adapted to their calling.