What are the pros and cons of free post-secondary education? September 27, 2007
Posted by gmbmfb in : education , trackbackI was reading Chitown’s blog Windy City Blues today through my RSS feed, and she was talking about what her financial plan was now that she’s done law school. I got to about the point in her post where she mentioned her student loan debt: $207k. Holy crap!!! It makes my $17k of debt look so small next to that amount … but perhaps it’s all relative to the careers that we have. Obviously she’ll make a lot more money than me since she went to law school, and all I have is a half-finished marketing degree and a college diploma in communications.
It makes me envious of other countries that offer free post-secondary education like France and Germany (I think). But I was reading up a little on government-run Universities, and apparently people think that the level of education offered there is lower than what you would find at a private institution. Also, an old teammate of mine told me that becoming a doctor is a lot easier in some countries in Europe because you don’t need to take all the fluff general classes – you just go straight into the classes you’ll actually need, and apparently that drastically reduces the amount of time spent in school. By years.
Anyway, I honestly don’t know much about the pros and cons of free post-secondary education, or really even on how other countries run their educational system, and I couldn’t find very helpful articles on the internet about it. Then again, I didn’t really look that hard. I wonder if anyone out there knows of a website that explains the pros and cons?
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