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by ClumsyPilot
1913 days ago
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In some countries Education is a human right and universities are free. Unless you are going to outproduce China and Vietnam, or are sitting on top of natural resources, the only path is through very skilled population working in high-skill industries. Its fine if to occasionally pay for some random irrelevant degree, because the cost of uneducated and unproductive population is much higher. |
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If you hint to European countries, our universities aren't free at all, we pay them via tax money. Not because "education is a human right" but because that's a more sustainable way to finance the system over the long term and education. Students still have tuition costs though, but of course not as crazy as what you have in the US.
But even in this context universities are reserved to a small number of people, mostly from a wealthier background, and the main reason for students to go to university is to have a "student experience" for a few years, not to learn the actual content. Only a small subset already knows what they want to do when they pick a university.