The document argues that education should be free for three key reasons:
1) Many students graduate with enormous debts of around 5 million Chilean pesos that take 20 years to pay off, which is unfair given they work to contribute to society through taxes.
2) Access to free education is a basic human right, and lack thereof increases inequality by preventing talented but low-income students from continuing their education.
3) Around 70% of Chilean students take on debt to finance their education, which leaves many middle-low income families in debt for years, so making education free would help fight inequality and allow young people to benefit society.
The document argues that education should be free for three key reasons:
1) Many students graduate with enormous debts of around 5 million Chilean pesos that take 20 years to pay off, which is unfair given they work to contribute to society through taxes.
2) Access to free education is a basic human right, and lack thereof increases inequality by preventing talented but low-income students from continuing their education.
3) Around 70% of Chilean students take on debt to finance their education, which leaves many middle-low income families in debt for years, so making education free would help fight inequality and allow young people to benefit society.
The document argues that education should be free for three key reasons:
1) Many students graduate with enormous debts of around 5 million Chilean pesos that take 20 years to pay off, which is unfair given they work to contribute to society through taxes.
2) Access to free education is a basic human right, and lack thereof increases inequality by preventing talented but low-income students from continuing their education.
3) Around 70% of Chilean students take on debt to finance their education, which leaves many middle-low income families in debt for years, so making education free would help fight inequality and allow young people to benefit society.
A lot of students and those that finished their programs are in a difficult situation about the total amount of their debt, about 5 million Chilean pesos, the sum of tuition, the annual payment and the cost of the course are part of this big account that lasts about 20 years. If they were studying five or six years to get a course and them work in an society that they ar part and help it my question is Why must they pay on average 5 million during five years? After this question, i can say: Education should be free. So, if we are contributing with out job to society across taxes, working five days a week with a long journey Also we must pay an amount almost equal a department, for examplpe. In my opinion this situation is totally unfair. As Abraham Lincoln, a famous politician said: On education, i can only san that is the most important that we, as a country, must engage. In addition, we are humans with rights and one of them is the right of education. For example a child who is at school has talent to study but he does not have any money to continue studying. Increase inequality because his solution is get a credit. In chile (according to a research of ECO education and communication) 70% of Chilean students resort to credit, which according to people against of the system leaves thousands of middle low class students debt once they finish studying. In conclusion, I can restate that education should be free. We are part of this society and we contribute with our jobs during our life while we are working. In addition, we must fight against inequality and we need young people to benefit from the future so we cannot give up
Source of Abraham Lincoln:
Oscar Morales Cofr
Ingles Intermedio II 355/07 October 10th, 2016 http://www.abrahamlincolnonline.org/lincoln/speeches/educate.htm