As @Petesede already stated, there are countries out there that do have free public education. Other countries have left a footprint on how it can be done. We just need to stop spending on wars and foreign aid that has made trillions of dollars in debt. We need a president that will invest in it's people and not be ready to fly over and fight wars for the sake of securing national interest in oil fields. Bernie Sanders was first out of the gates to talk about free health care and public education. Clinton is getting scared of the numbers he is pulling and she is now promising the same outline. Funny how she didn't speak about Obamacare.
I have close ties to a lot of military personnel that talk about this all the time. You can get free education if you join the military. Even once you get out, with the GI bill you can go to school and they will pay you to do so. You are getting paid for you time in the service. That pays for itself. But the training you get will get you better jobs in the future, and the GI bill alone will pay for your schooling.
Great in theory, bad in practice. People will say or promise anything just to win elections. You know what's certain? Free education in the military.
haha. I used to wonder why anyone would go infantry. I was in the Army Reserves in HS and during college, basically for one weekend a month I was making like $350 per month. When I graduated, I went active duty for 4 years and they paid back my student loans... so yeah, basically with 4 years of active duty I got my degree for free and earned a decent living ( for a 22 year old). Nothing is perfect, and there are always going to be things you can point to as bad examples of what might happen.. but a more educated general population is a good thing. The other benefit is just people graduating college without a ton of debt, it will lead to a better housing and durable goods market. Most people who graduate college have so much student loan debt that they can´t even think about buying a house for a decade.
It's a shame but going infantry was actually a step in the right direction. I personally never even thought of college as an option. I went to college when I turned 30 but that wasn't until after I married a woman who could not conceive of life without college. Needless to say I married up.
Because some young guys just figure that if you do something like join the military, you might as well join the purest of combat units. Man vs man, through the forest, mountains, deserts, rain, mud, snow... one step at a time... with a shitload of heavy equipment. Definitely worth it though.
The countries who are making it "free" for everyone are the same countries who produce little or nothing and eventually fail. And college wouldn't be so expensive if you didn't have so many overpaid "administrators", and so much financial aid already available. And nobody forces anybody to take out student loans.
This is a great idea for the country. Many people do not have the money to pay for school in which it discourages them from going to school at all.
