Higher Education Funding
Higher education in the United States is extremely high. While most in Europe have their university tuitions subsidised by tax money, in America the cost of education seems to be rising and rising at a substantial rate. This past march thousands of protesters were in California fighting for lower tuitions, and a millionaire tax hike to pay for it. The protesters argue that a university education is a right that everyone should be able to afford. Now is that true. Is a university education a right or a privilege? I don’t believe that a university education is a right. Honestly I find that to be self-indulgent to think that. We have the right to life and liberty, but not to a university education. I feel as though this mentality is devaluing university educations, and making them worth less that they were 30 years ago. Maybe that’s unpopular to think, but I feel as though we as a society have become to indulgent and believe that we should be given too much by the government. I know this may sound strange to say, as a person with high student loan debt. I loved my university experience, but maybe if people wouldn’t constantly have given me free money I would have not left university with such a large amount of debt.
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