1. Collage education gives or provides basic skills that are necessary for the job market.
2. Making collage education free will enable absorb the lost brains due to lack of fees to continue with advanced education though the learners are qualified.
3. Free collage education will enable a country or state to become independent when it comes to labor.
1. Free collage education adds to the government expenditure thus it obstructs other development plans.
2. Free collage education makes the total tax levied on goods to be higher thus makes goods much more costly. This makes the people suffer and live under great financial constraints.
3. Some of the collage learners advance their education levels to overseas where the settle making the repayment process of some amount spent on their education by the government impossible. Therefore, the government may end up in total financial crisis (Payea, 14).
In spite of all these risks involved, it is still in my opinion that collage education should be free. This is opinion is rooted in a famous saying stating ‘if you think education is expensive, try illiteracy’. Also, from economic analysis, it is better to invest more and reap quality products than invest less to reap poor quality products. Therefore, I would humbly request my learned opponents to swallow the humble pie and join me to support free collage education in USA.
Expounding on my strong and widely accepted supportive points on the motion, the ratio of total number of secondary school leavers in USA per year to the number that joins collage and other higher education institutions is approximately 0.4. This interprets to more than half of the learners lacking basic skills that are required to join any career. This number piles with each dispatch of students per year. In the long run, this has led to excessive dependence and underutilization of natural resources. Since the country or state has to move on, it has to import labor from other states or countries making the country to spend more on labor import as compared to the labor that it exports. This has been the trend in USA since early 1980s. The learners also lack basic skills for independence making them turn into crime so as to meet their daily requirements and basic needs. This has led to escalated crime rates, heavy drug trafficking and abuse and very high prostitution rates in the USA in general.
As an example, try to look a Los Angeles, a state in USA (Watson, 13). It has one of the poorest living standards in US and highest crimes (including social crimes). This can be attributed to minimal collages in the area and high education costs in the few available collages. Making collage education free will make a state or country less dependent on labor importation since it will produce enough labor locally. In the long run, the amount earned by this local labor to the state will be more compared to the amount spent on free college education. This covers even labor exportation which will also earn the state or country foreign currency adding to the gross income.
Most of the USA drug addicts, traffickers and other types of offenders are not dunderheads. In fact, most attain distinction level in their secondary education. Poverty is what makes them unable to pursue higher education (www.collegeview.com). The pressing poverty makes these brains to go into waste and turn into crime. If the college education was made available to all, then these brains would not go into waste as it does. Also, there will be improved gross income of the citizens reducing poverty levels. In the long run, the free college education results to poverty education which is a strategy that has hampered US efforts and development strategies (M.O.A.E, 4).
In conclusion, my opinion on this motion is introduction of free college education will be of gross benefit compared to the total expenditure. The advantages surpass the disadvantages by far and a view from social perspective and foreseeing the far future gives a better illusion than from an economic perspective.
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Watson, A. 2008. Private career training institutions Act review. New York. Blake Publishers.
Advanced Education Department. Report on international education review. Ministry of Advanced Education. 2010. Print.
www.collegeview.com/articles/article/the-benefits-of-having-a-college-education.2011.Print.
http://www.ed.gov/news/media-advisories/us-education-under-secretary-host-town-hall-college-affordability-booker-t-was.2011.Print.
