Education should be free.

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For me, I do feel like this shouldn't even be a thing of discussion. Education should be free and this is because it is very important and vital to the lives of everyone on earth. I know it's almost next to impossible for education all over the world to be free, but the good thing about today's contest by the Hive Learners community is that we're free to run wild with our imaginations and with that said, I one hundred percent feel that education, along with vital things like health care should be free.

I feel like government should have a structure in place where they find another means to pay teachers and lecturers while students go to school free of charge without having to pay a dime because those students will end up being future doctors, engineers, lawyers etc, that will be of great help to us in the future.

Unfortunately, people tend to not take things that are free, serious. They misuse them because they aren't paying a penny for it and that will just make our schools get filled with bunch of unserious students whose major goals would be to derail the path of the serious students who are trying to make a future for themselves. But then again, even now that schools aren't free, we still have a lot of people who are in school but have no clue what they're doing there. They're only there either to please their parents or maybe because of the freedom that comes with being in higher institutions, so yeah, whether education is free or not, there will always be those who just ain't  serious in class.

But do I think it's possible for education to be free all over the world? Yes I do, I just don't see it happening now. I do believe it can happen in the future though, I mean there are few countries already like Norway and Finland who already practice free education and it's working for them. So I'm sure if they can do it, other countries can too.

And when it comes to if making education free will affect the standard of teaching, I really don't think so. As long as measures are put in place to ensure that students don't abuse the whole free education thing and teachers aren't disrespected by hoodlums who are only in school because it's free, then I don't see how free education will affect the standard of teaching.

Like I said earlier, there are countries who are already practicing free education and they're doing so well because if they weren't, they would have put an end to it. So if they can give free education and manage it so well, everyone would too, as long as the right infrastructures are in place.

Look, there are a lot of people with great potentials out there who are currently not in school not because they don't have the brains for it but because of the poor background they're from and having no one to sponsor them through school.

Free education will bring an end to all of that which automatically will see us having really intelligent and bright generations in the future.