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Yess! They should have done it NO.... never
Debate Score:20
Arguments:12
Total Votes:22
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University Education should be free

Nearly every country in the developed world, and more and more in the developing world, provide free primary and secondary education. Such education is generally uncontroversial and accepted as necessary by both liberals and conservatives around the world. In the case of university education, however, there is a great deal of disparity between countries’ education policies. In many states students must pay fees to attend university, for which they may seek student loans or grants. Often states offer financial assistance to individuals who cannot afford to pay fees and lack other methods of payment. In other states, university education is completely free and considered a citizen’s right to attend. Debates center on the issues of whether there is in fact a right to university education, and on whether states can feasibly afford to finance such education.

Yess! They should have done it

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NO.... never

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3 points

Yes, I feel that all countries of the world including South Africa, Zimbabwe, Iraq, Mexico Algeria, Libya and Liberia and the likes should all have their taxpayers fund a free university education for everyone. Even though the financing of such a scheme would mean that 100s of 1000s more would die from starvation and poverty induced illnesses the free university education would be well worth the sacrifice in human life, providing it's not me, nor any of my relations, and I'm you the same goes for you.

Side: Yess! They should have done it

I agree with you but isn't there a better way to get people education while not starving people or risking the lives of people... Richer countries should fund the education in lesser economic developed countries...

Side: Yess! They should have done it
Kalamazoo(333) Clarified
2 points

I'm certain you'd have a problem convincing the taxpayers of other countries that their hard earned dosh was going to educate the under classes of the failed nations of the world. They would probably develop some ridiculous idea that with such a policy of unregulated, if not reckless magnanimity, they themselves would end up at the bottom of the league of nations. I cannot help but wonder why it is that the poor countries are ''almost'' always administered by, bongos or, at least by predominately bongo governments. The greater the Bongo ratio to the overall population the more backward and deprived the country will be. Why do you think that is?

Side: Yess! They should have done it

It is a wonderful concept to have free tuition to a university. Education should be the #1 priority of any country. There are students who are now enrolled at a university who will be paying off a student loan for the next 20 years.

Side: Yess! They should have done it

Yes, I agree with you PhxDemocrat. If the country wants their students to do well, they should provide free tuition so that the students can excel in their studies.

Side: Yess! They should have done it
2 points

Your education should not be totally dependent on the amount of money you have. Part of why America was supposed to be so great is because you're supposed to be given equal opportunity and our education system doesn't reflect that.

Side: Yess! They should have done it
2 points

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Side: Yess! They should have done it
1 point

Perhaps, if we had a "public" university system along side the private university system, this may be an idea. But a university education is not near difficult ENOUGH to attain at a private university. Somewhere around the 1950, as we were in the process of completely giving up as an agricultural or even a producing economic force, and switching over to a service industry economy, we got the notion in our heads that everybody capable of a high school education ought to also go to college. This is understandable in some ways, for two reasons. There were fewer non-professional, yet adequate paying jobs with the death of the family farm, the family business, or working at making airplanes, and cars, and radios, and tupperware and what not. We gave up the family farm to corporate farms, and gave up manufacturing to China, Japan, and Europe. We're a country of Arby's and McDonalds now. There are precious few middle ground jobs to be had. So, innocently enough, parents all want their children to get college educations, so that they can be professionals instead of burger slingers. We've lost pretty much everything inbetween, so in a way, I get it. But if we also then, make it free to anybody to get a college education, then you have two problems. 1. Not all people have the intelligence, discipline, drive, and need of a college education. So if you educate them anyway, then either the parents, or in your scenario, the state, would spend 25,000 a year for however long they stay with it, per person, to get an education which they won't be able to use, because about one in ten of them will have the ingenuity, drive, ambition, intelligence, and skills after college to compete for the hard to get professional jobs such as being engineers, doctors, lawyers and such. Or they will glut the market with substandard lawyers and engineers who won't get hired for anything decent, but more than likely all these freely educated people will be serving hamburgers with a state funded bachelors degree, because it's the way of the world.

I'm only a partial no vote, however. I believe in perhaps funding the brightest stars coming out of high school with a fine education at any college they apply to, if the have the remarkable grades, and have proved themselves to be in the top percentile of motivated young people who will make a real difference after college. Oh wait. We already have that, don't we. Scholarships.

Side: NO.... never
1 point

I don't think so. Most jobs really don't require a college education so this would be particularly wasteful I think. Plus it's not really free, although I'm sure everyone realizes that by now.

Side: NO.... never
Joel_Mathews(2284) Clarified
0 points

Give me examples of jobs that don't require a college degree.. These jobs must be decent jobs...

Side: Yess! They should have done it
Troy8(2433) Clarified
1 point

Dental hygienist, online advertising manager, web developer, medical secretary, heating mechanic, surveyor... I could go on.

Side: Yess! They should have done it
1 point

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Side: NO.... never