(September 27, 2013 at 1:07 pm)Psykhronic Wrote:(September 26, 2013 at 9:17 am)bladevalant546 Wrote: German, the argument presented by your friend seems logical. However, it is made in my opinion the same sense as "grass is greener". Like you said here in America, the fees for a good college run around 1000-5000 dollars per semester.
And that doesn't take into account room and board. At my old college, it was 11000 a semester by the time I left (room and board was a little less than half.)
Wow that's crazy expensive. When you say one semester do you mean half a year? Right now my school is 7k++ for a whole year. When I first started in first year it was 6.5k++, but I don't buy textbooks in my last year and I bought probably 500 dollars worth of books in my first (all secondhand too,
)I don't think that only poor people who excel in the narrow evaluation systems of a country deserve to go to school (by using scholarships and grants). Certainly everyone who can keep up deserve to go to school. Even those who can't keep up deserve to give it a shot. (But obviously not everyone deserves the degree, only those who do well should get degrees)
Although I'm academically able to, I don't have the luxury for a lot of professional schools. Because of the fees. You're losing out on talents if you put a price on education. There are very smart people who don't do well in the evaluation systems and may not have scored scholarships. But if you look at the history of the greatest scientists, they haven't always been the best students.
So yea, the benefits outweigh the costs.
