Free education?

You are correct, sir.

I believe that if we weren’t able to have free education then we wouldn’t be able to make money for this country. If we had to pay then we would have all these stuck up people running the show. I have more money than you so i have a higher education. I also believe that money should be able to buy a education b/c then we would be in a perdicament like a dr that paid for everything and then kills someone in surgery b/c they forgot how to seal a open organ. I mean people will always have to earn there education but why should anyone get any with just paying for it.

This was a good question. thank you.

The USA provided returning soldiers with the GI Bill after WWII and a LOT of people complained that their taxes were going to go up because the government had to collect that money somehow…

Many of the soldiers took advantage of this and went to school to get their degrees in engineering (big at the time) and others…

as a result…
1. They earned more money than they would have without the degree.
2. The USA collected more taxes that it would without the increased income.
3. The demand for higher education increased.
4. More colleges and Universities were built.
5. Even higher demand for Professors created even higher demand for high level degrees.
6. The overall “knowledge base” of the USA expanded.

There were some people who scammed the system and did not really get a degree or use their education but overall it worked out quite well for us…

Quality education at the lower level is a LOT trickier…
1. How do you measure it?
2. How much time do you spend measuring it and doing administrative functions instead of teaching?
3. How do you pay for it since children do not work and pay taxes?
4. How do you make sure that it is constitutionally “just”?

If you let the teachers teach and take away the paperwork that they are currently buried under, then you get some people educated and some fall by the wayside…

If you set too rigit of standards then teachers are forced to “teach to the test” (this is not necessarily a bad thing because then you know what the students are being taught)…

Rigid standards often let things like Art, Physical fitnes, Sports, and Music fall by the wayside as “not required.”

Another thing, how do you deal with students that are disruptive? should they be put into special classes? should they be expelled? should their parents be required to send them to private schools? (or alternative schools?)…

Personally, I think we should have a “mentoring” system of education without grade levels and without “grades” for evaluation. No age requirements, only previous accomplishments and certifications. A child may be taking advanced mathematics but at the same time behind in World History. Each child would have their OWN education plan to follow.. it might include progressive ladders of classes such as math where you take algebra, geometry, algebra II, trigonometry, calculus, etc (where the lower classes are prerequisites for the higher ones) but the age/timing of their classes is individualized to meet their learning pace…

OK, so.. yes, we should provide FREE and QUALITY education. But I disagree about how we currently decide if it is quality or not.