Question

1. If education is provides that ability for a nation to improve its' economic outlook, why do we make access to education such a high barrier in terms of cost?
2. There has been some discussion of late that we should consider free community college education for all students. What are your thoughts about free community college education?

Answer 1

Education is important for the economic development. But there is still is the cost barrier to the access to education. The people trapped due to this are because of poverty. Having access to even primary schools have huge amount of expenses from the admission fee to school uniform and books.

Whether the people will be able to send their child to school or not is dependent on their income levels. Lower the incomes less is the chances of their children getting proper education. Higher the income, better are the chances of the access to education.

Apart from them, homeless poor who don’t have any source to children can’t have access to education also. The costs of education aren’t bearable for them. This type of a situation is normally seen in underdeveloped countries and developing economies.

I’d say free community college education for all students should be introduced in our economies. Government should introduce new programmes focusing on free education. This will help the people who can’t afford to make their children literate. The equality that we talk about can be achieved this way. This has other benefits also. Child labor can be reduced if more knowledge is conveyed to the people around. Education is important and should be available for all.