Free Education Debate
The cluster centers on debates about making higher education free or subsidized, including arguments over who should pay (taxes, future earnings, or individuals), societal benefits versus costs, and criticisms of student loans and tuition pricing.
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Not sure why you are downvoted but this makes sense. If you want free education then you must promise to pay for it in future rest of your life.
It's not cheap education. What is the point in deliberately changing the topic? It's about paying people to consume free education.
This is the "I paid for college so why should education be free" argument.
Education isn't about money.
Something is wrong if we've reached a point where only the very rich (or the very poor) can go to a nice school. And something is wrong if only certain fields of education are valued enough to cover their costs. Economic theory says that the cost of education in the less valued fields should drop, but the easy access to loans for the study of anything, which can never reasonably be paid off, prevents that from happening. Depending on which side you're on, this is a feature, not a bug.
Most of society's direct expenses in their education is in the K-12 phase, not in the undergrad or graduate schooling. A baker, landscaper, and a computer programmer all had very similar levels of direct educational investment. I don’t think the computer programmer has any different obligation back to society than any of the others.
Funny how much education you can afford when you're not overpaying for basic necessities.
The real issue is the "four years spending $40,000, $50,000 in tuition without earning income". Education is essential for the meaningful progress of society and humanity, we can't let a "tough economy" stand in the way of long-term thinking. We also can't let greed stand in the way of bright young minds realizing themselves. Education needs to be free, thorough, and challenging, that way the minds that crave it will have unrestrained access to it, and those who don't can go ahead and pick a tra
No. It's a Sybil attack on subsidy to help ppl of different means equally make room for education in their lives. No one is "making money" unless they are committing fraud. They are being put on an equal playing field -- the subsidies are seemingly directed at the individual, but are terraforming [of the field] in nature, not for enrichment of the individual.I was able to get educated with full focus on that task, because my family prioritised saving for my education. I want ot
Well, you're not paying for your education yet