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Yes! It is not free to offer a university education. Either you pay (through taking out a loan), your parents pay or the taxpayer pay.

Seeing as how many people waste time and money at university, I think it is good that they either waste their own or their parents' money.

Probably a better system would be where the top 20% of universities are national and free (with competitive entry) and the rest is private.




The thing is though, private education systems has shown to produce cost explosion as education is a needed thing and no one is controlling the costs. State financed education has a much better cost control. Like they don't build insanely expensive stadiums or put a grand piano in the cafeteria (seen this at a US university).


The problem with that is that it sets a precedent , basically saying "If you are poor , you better be a genius or you will have no qualifications and will work in mcdonalds"




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