Should university education be free for everyone?

 

I vividly remember those days when public universities were free for anyone. If I close my eyes, the flooding memories come back. I was always going to study hard before a test; as sooner as I got a high grade, then smoothly I could let my hair down until the following test arrives. The testing week was a nightmare, but it just lasted one short, yet intense, period each semester. It appeared at that time to be hard, the boring all-day-long school with narrow-minded teachers now seems a piece of cake to me after having to work in an office with the pressure to make a name by myself. Had I known how everything would have changed for the worse, I would certainly have taken more courses at school to climb the social ladder more easily, instead of going straight to a job as soon as I got my certificate. Many things are undoubtedly getting unbearable when I set back the drawbacks, having to pay to get well education is one of those.

Those who are in favor of fees in public universities argue they help to increase the quality of Education. Moreover, from what people can gather, is evidently how expensive gets the annual budget in this field. Difficult though it may be, the following generations will be facing the fact to afford the scholarship with their resources. The more one person knows, the more he might need during the process; those expenses cannot be taken from taxes, it is important to consider that. One advantage of this perspective is that it would bring a whole different kind of students and future professionals, while they are learning the ropes, they will get their overlook. Thus, they would not be tempted to follow their gut feeling, instead, they would feel obliged to acknowledge immediately if they are in the proper career or if they wish to do anything else. As far as we all are concerned, people should never have to pay for others’ mistakes. The benefit of this new policy is that people would never be anywhere near to keep asking us for paying their impossible dreams.

Nevertheless, the danger of allowing students to achieve degrees on behalf of the citizen’s taxes is a commonly held perception. Those who react to how the budget is maladministered by white-collar functionaries usually neglect the common field of the areas where they are not pundits. Some journalists have an axe to grind whilst they are pursuing to sell newspapers, though they seemed to forget, as it has happened in the mists of time, how was the family net only two generations before. All the new policies on Education over Y Generation, which has been best-known with a good deal offensive language, such as lazy people; reject to accept some hard facts. Never before one income at home has meant nothing to provide for a family. The previous educational system was a bunch of couch-potatoes well-paid by the State who presumably were teachers; these youngsters are asked to do more than they actually can. Surrounded by the finest technology available through the internet and mobile phones, this entire generation is being pushed to give the extra mile to accomplish the greedy dreams of the X Generation.

In conclusion, should we pay the university to these youngsters? Yes and no. Seeming easy to give permits to everybody, to have a big enrollment is a different animal. While being humanitarian is acceptable, is also true to be realistic. Education nowadays needs a significant amount of funds, giving all the responsibility to the State would degenerate on social problems because of the many other fields where it invests. Furthermore, young students need to learn how to make strong commitments with those who afford their Education. One way to solve this trouble is by making them pay a small fee for every partial test, as the old saying says: beggars can’t be choosers! By having 90% of scholarships for free, the rest should not be a worry. In a hypothetical scenery where they are not qualified enough to keep studying, or, if by chance, they had personal issues to solve immediately, at least they would know that schools remain where they could return whenever they choose; youth-only happens once and is when we are pushed for time trying to enjoy life. All in all, we do not need many professionals, just the finest. If I may add a personal thought, to my knowledge, quality never comes in quantity.