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funky_lynnUID: 2122511

53 "College and university education should be free for all students, fully financed by the government."



Should college and university education be free for all students and fully financed by the government? I would say my contention is a negative one. The suggestion of the speaker would probably lead to disastrous consequences. The arguments will be presented as following.

Firstly, free college and university education may lead to a declination in the education quality. If the tuition of a certain university is cancelled, more students will pour into it, which, as most people consider, may be a good phenomenon for more people can receive high-quality education. However, the result can be just the opposite. Owing to the lack of faculties and staff, more students have to share one professor or tutor. Small classes will become bigger ones and the quality will drop accordingly.

What’s worse is that free education is not often cherished by students. Take the secondary education in America as an example, many junior students don’t take the free education seriously and end up graduating with nothing achieved. But private school students tend to work better in every aspect because they know their parents have paid a large sum of money to send them into such a place, and it is reasonable to learn as much as they can during their stay in the school. Likewise, the same problem may emerge in colleges and universities if the tuition is cancelled and a university or college diploma would be cheap and unworthy of any value if the education quality really declines.

Secondly, it is not worth such great effort of the government to support the students to receive college or university education. Apparently, there are many other problems in today’s society which are of the same importance as the college and university education tuition, such as basic education problems, housing problems, and unemployment problems. As I see it, basic education needs the financial aid of our government more urgently by comparison because the overall education level of the society is decided by the basic education. The higher education, however, is essential for meritocracy, that is to say, a small proportion of the whole population is supposed to receive such education. Given that the higher education problem takes the highest priority, the government is usually not able to take such a huge financial burden.

I admit that today’s tuition fee for university and college is far much higher than some can accept, and that it does need to be cut down. Accordingly, many universities provide fellowships; scholarships and tuition waver for their excellent students in order to lighten the financial burden. Therefore, we should not put the entire responsibility on the government; after all, our government has much more to deal with. Instead, it is more wise for universities and colleges to try to raise more money from private institutions or successful alumni in order to support the education of their poor students.

In the final analysis, college and university education should not be free for all students because we have to maintain the education quality and keep it from being cheap and ordinary. If something needs to be done about the soaring tuition fee, financial aids from the university or private institutions will help, and the government will surely give some support, too. However, we can not ask the government to take all the responsibilities.

[ Last edited by funky_lynn on 2005-8-4 at 17:27 ]

joythrutearUID: 184670

倒数第２段的more wise应该改成wiser...

文章５６０＋的字数，作者写得很有条理，用词也很到位．

我认为作者在最后指出虽然学费昂贵，但是有一系列的奖学金的时候，应该论述政府免除学校学费并不是一个necessary way,有很多更好的方法．比如提供贷款，这样既解决了学生不能上学读书的问题，也解决了上文读公立学校学生不努力的问题．

还有啊，表达钱应该用在更棘手的地方，可以这么写：few would dispute that the large amount of money could go a long way toward addressing pressing social problems of the day----by doing......