Prisoners over Students?

[Jonny]

first of all, you need to calm down.

and secondly, there is a difference between a country where a young student has to retain a crippling debt when they graduate and a country where they don't have to worry about that.

Nobody is forcing them to take on that debt.
So clearly every single person who does (me included) thinks it is worth it. If people really don't want the debt, the can go straight into work when they leave school and save up so that they can pay for the fees outright.

What is not fair, is a system where people who didn't even go to university have to pay the fees for those that did, especially when in the long run those graduates will earn more on average. Any system where the child of millionaire parents could get a "free" education payed for by hard working tax payers is clearly not very good.

[Sakarisker]

Nothing is free, even when education is free (largely paid by the state, no direct debt for the student), the student will pay the cost of it with debt for life, that is, through higher taxes that will steal the half of they wage wqhen he works.

[Wickedgirl]

Nobody is forcing them to take on that debt.
So clearly every single person who does (me included) thinks it is worth it. If people really don't want the debt, the can go straight into work when they leave school and save up so that they can pay for the fees outright.

Education should be seen as an investment. If the Nordic countries are doing so well with their free education system then we would too.

What is not fair, is a system where people who didn't even go to university have to pay the fees for those that did, especially when in the long run those graduates will earn more on average. Any system where the child of millionaire parents could get a "free" education payed for by hard working tax payers is clearly not very good.

Then what about the current system where people who have never been to prison in their lives pay for people staying at the state penitentiary? oh, I guess prisoners are a special case and they're more important than students

[Jonny]

Education should be seen as an investment. If the Nordic countries are doing so well with their free education system then we would too.



Then what about the current system where people who have never been to prison in their lives pay for people staying at the state penitentiary? oh, I guess prisoners are a special case and they're more important than students

Well we can let all the prisoners out if you'd prefer that.

If education is such a good investment, people won't mind paying for their own education themselves then, will they?