Why College Tuition Should Be Free
College Tuition should be free in some states for three reasons. The amount of student loan debt has increased exponentially, if tuition was free this would stop the increase of this debt. Already there are colleges with free tuition in some states, granted special requirements have to be made. Also colleges in some European countries are free, Germany even offer free college to American students. That is why college tuition should be free in some if not most states.
There is one primary reason why student loan debt has increased to beyond $1.1 trillion. It is that college tuition has increased in every state since the 2007-08 academic year. Some state tuition increased over that period are relatively minute (3.1% Maryland, 4.2% Ohio, 4.3% …show more content…
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Mexico, and Brazil all either offer free college education to students or have very favorable grant systems that allow students to attend college for little or no cost.
Should college be free for all? Bernie Sanders thinks so. So did John Adams. “The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expense of it,” Adams argued. That belief motivated the establishment of land grant colleges, in the 1862 Morrill Act, “to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.”.
If college education was free then there would have to be high requirements for one to have free tuition. One requirement is they would have to maintain 2.7 GPA in order to keep the free tuition. Which I think is good, but I think there are going to be several students who are underprepared because there are many schools that do not help with preparing people for college. I think we should try to incorporate more of Europe’s style of education, where we integrate more higher education in the K-12 which prepare them for college or help them find a more stable job if they do not wish to pursue a higher
There is one primary reason why student loan debt has increased to beyond $1.1 trillion. It is that college tuition has increased in every state since the 2007-08 academic year. Some state tuition increased over that period are relatively minute (3.1% Maryland, 4.2% Ohio, 4.3% …show more content…
Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden, Germany, Mexico, and Brazil all either offer free college education to students or have very favorable grant systems that allow students to attend college for little or no cost.
Should college be free for all? Bernie Sanders thinks so. So did John Adams. “The whole people must take upon themselves the education of the whole people, and must be willing to bear the expense of it,” Adams argued. That belief motivated the establishment of land grant colleges, in the 1862 Morrill Act, “to promote the liberal and practical education of the industrial classes in the several pursuits and professions in life.”.
If college education was free then there would have to be high requirements for one to have free tuition. One requirement is they would have to maintain 2.7 GPA in order to keep the free tuition. Which I think is good, but I think there are going to be several students who are underprepared because there are many schools that do not help with preparing people for college. I think we should try to incorporate more of Europe’s style of education, where we integrate more higher education in the K-12 which prepare them for college or help them find a more stable job if they do not wish to pursue a higher