IntrovertedThinker
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Should higher education be free?
Grad school is free.
Yes. Just like in Denmark. Ideally.
No. Without funding the quality of the education and the ability to do research and promote scientific advancement would suffer drastically.
In the US K-12 is free and the education doesn't rank so well compared to other industrialized countries. College is not free and overall US colleges are among the best in the world.
So the question is what is better: quality education or universal education?
You can have both.So the question is what is better: quality education or universal education?
You can have both.
The Ivy League colleges are indeeed at the top of most rankings, they have millions of dollars for research and are extremely selective about their students. I´m not so sure about you average regional college though. If you go to the US as an exchange student, the German state won´t fund the first year of college, because it is considered equivalent to the last year of German highschool and unworthy of being considered true tertiary education.
I have to catch my train, but I´ll be back to the thread. IntrovertedThinker has a point, but there are further aspects to be considered, more later, gotta go!
In the US K-12 is free and the education doesn't rank so well compared to other industrialized countries. College is not free and overall US colleges are among the best in the world.
So the question is what is better: quality education or universal education?
In the US K-12 is free and the education doesn't rank so well compared to other industrialized countries. College is not free and overall US colleges are among the best in the world.
So the question is what is better: quality education or universal education?
You can have both.
I don't know if we should assume that if an education isn't free to the public its going to better than it would have been in the case where it was paid for by the customers. If university education is to be rendered free to the public, isn't it a possibility that the government will provide enough money for Universities to perform at the level they do now? I think that we can accept that as a possibility at least, the real question is whether or not the U.S government will be able to match the funds that Universities earn by forcing tuition fees on their customers. Do you see that as a likely outcome?
It is free here (Scotland) and we have lower taxation than the US.Indeed. Many European/Nordic countries have already made higher education free, which is payed through high taxation. .
It is free here (Scotland) and we have lower taxation than the US.
Basically, we rock.