Professors teaching literature would rather be producing it. Professors teaching math are producing it. - Paul Graham

Competitors punch you in the jaw, but investors have you by the balls.

Instead of simply cancelling student debt, maybe it would be a good idea to loosen the rules about discharging it via bankruptcy. Then you'd both help the people in the greatest need, and start to fix the system (because lenders would have to become less indiscriminate).

If your startup's potential market is huge, make very conservative assumptions when estimating its size. There is nothing investors like more than an obviously conservative estimate that still ends up being huge.