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Pros and Cons of Free Education

Free education for all has both advantages and disadvantages. While it encourages education for all, it could overburden governments and reduce the quality of education. If education was free, other services may demand the same and leave no funding. However, governments could provide scholarships for outstanding low-income students instead of completely free education. Having students pay fees makes them more serious learners and teaches skills like time management. It also provides funding to hire good teachers and maintain high standards. Overall, the disadvantages of completely free education outweigh the advantages.

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Pros and Cons of Free Education

Free education for all has both advantages and disadvantages. While it encourages education for all, it could overburden governments and reduce the quality of education. If education was free, other services may demand the same and leave no funding. However, governments could provide scholarships for outstanding low-income students instead of completely free education. Having students pay fees makes them more serious learners and teaches skills like time management. It also provides funding to hire good teachers and maintain high standards. Overall, the disadvantages of completely free education outweigh the advantages.

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FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL:)

Whether governments should be wholly responsible for university fees remains controversial. Some people think that by doing this, governments can encourage all people to enhance their education while others claim that it is a huge waste of money for them. In my view, disadvantages of freeing education outweigh advantages of this policy First, it is claimed that education is the right of every person. Hence, he or she is entitled to reach higher level of education without payment. However, if governments free education as an equal right, all other fields like health-care will demand the same right. Therefore, no sooner does this policy come true than all services in the society are on the house, leaving no profit for workers in each field to earn a living, let alone dig deeper into their fields. In such countries where education is a service and students are obliged to pay fee, schools have enough fee to maintain facilities and hire the best teachers to educate. As a result, they can produce the most outstanding students like Havard and Yale Universities which demand high fees, but offer reputed training. Second, this policy is conducive to the creation of high-skilled labor. With each citizens receiving higher education like tertiary, governments are proud with their best workers to produce the highest quality products and achieve significant economic growth. Nevertheless, because of being exempt from education fees, students take knowledge for granted, which leads to their lower academic performance. In addition, while governments are supposed to shoulder a variety of tasks from diseases, defense to political relationship, it will be burdensome for them to be totally in charge of education without sharing of each citizen. Furthermore, although people claim that poor, but outstanding students may have little access to higher education, which is a disadvantage to the society in the long term, governments can provide scholarships and grants for these special individuals. This means that being totally free from education expense is unnecessary. Equally important, for students who are responsible for education fees, they will be actively motivated to work part-time jobs to pay for their higher education whereas they accumulate a variety of living skills from economic independence, seriousness in learning to time-management. In brief, there are more pains than gains in the policy of emancipating students from university education fees. By paying fees, not only do students become serious in learning, enhance several skills, but teachers are also given higher salaries to sharpen their teaching ability and governments are less burdened with numerous social tasks. Written By Pham Thi Le Na

QUESTIONS TO PONDER 1. What are pros of freeing education? 2. What are cons of freeing education? 3. Are there any other ways to provide the best education and ensure equality for all students? 4. What do you think about Vietnamese education? What are solutions you can suggest to improve? If you were the leader of the country, what would you do right away to enhance education level?

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