Pros and Cons of Free Education Free education is obtaining knowledge, skills and positive or negative experiences without a cost or payments. There are pros and cons of free education. The real question is, which one would be favorable or advantageous for those who want to gain an education. A lot of people would debate whether or not education should be free, or stay the way it is today. Having a free education would be more beneficial in my opinion. One of the advantages of providing a free education is that it would enable students to concentrate on learning, instead of struggling with the payments of tuition fees. Even though there are scholarships, it only helps out a handful of people. Not everyone qualifies for grants or scholarships.
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Children and teens living in those conditions do not have the opportunity to go to school/college for multiple reasons. For some, all they want to do is learn and get an education, but they do not have to money or means to go. Federal aid isn’t available in most if not all poverty countries, therefore they cannot go to school. Parents in those countries want the best for their kids just like everyone else, and it is sad to see them begging to go to school. If education was free they would be able to get an education and get a chance to feel like they are doing something with their lives. So, it is clear to see that free education would bring a lot of great things. It would bring amazing opportunities to most people around the world. The world would be filled with smarter people for those who take sophistication sincerely. A lot of jobs would be created and jobs would be filled leaving the homeless rate down significantly. When looking at all of the possibilities, having free education would not be such a bad …show more content…
Some would say what is fair and what is not. The pros and cons could be listed forever, because there is always something new coming up in the education system. Free tuition won’t help students. When education was free in the 1970s, a much lower proportion of the population undertook higher education. Spending a lot of money per student to make it free means there is no funding to increase higher education places or the quality of education. Furthermore, our governments face trade-offs for every spending decision. To put more into free education, they must hurt the economy and our job prospects by taxing more, increase debt on future generations or cut other services. Consequently, there will always be a reluctance to put enough money into education. Which would not be fair for people who struggle every day and live paycheck-to-paycheck. Thus, making education free would not be such a wise idea knowing the debt America is in today, and the problems it would cause across the rest of the
Children and teens living in those conditions do not have the opportunity to go to school/college for multiple reasons. For some, all they want to do is learn and get an education, but they do not have to money or means to go. Federal aid isn’t available in most if not all poverty countries, therefore they cannot go to school. Parents in those countries want the best for their kids just like everyone else, and it is sad to see them begging to go to school. If education was free they would be able to get an education and get a chance to feel like they are doing something with their lives. So, it is clear to see that free education would bring a lot of great things. It would bring amazing opportunities to most people around the world. The world would be filled with smarter people for those who take sophistication sincerely. A lot of jobs would be created and jobs would be filled leaving the homeless rate down significantly. When looking at all of the possibilities, having free education would not be such a bad …show more content…
Some would say what is fair and what is not. The pros and cons could be listed forever, because there is always something new coming up in the education system. Free tuition won’t help students. When education was free in the 1970s, a much lower proportion of the population undertook higher education. Spending a lot of money per student to make it free means there is no funding to increase higher education places or the quality of education. Furthermore, our governments face trade-offs for every spending decision. To put more into free education, they must hurt the economy and our job prospects by taxing more, increase debt on future generations or cut other services. Consequently, there will always be a reluctance to put enough money into education. Which would not be fair for people who struggle every day and live paycheck-to-paycheck. Thus, making education free would not be such a wise idea knowing the debt America is in today, and the problems it would cause across the rest of the