Should education be free? I strongly believe not.

And I am going to expose three aspects for which

I am of that opinion.

First, we will analyze the most important aspect: the moral-legal issue.

Education as you know is a good or service, it has a cost like food, clothing, entertainment, etc.

Consequently, when we ask for free education, we are actually asking someone else to pay for our
education. And that is immoral.

Even if you are able to pay for your own education, you benefit from the money of others who do
not even want to give you their money, they are violently forced to hand over the benefits of their
effort to give it to you. That is illegal.

Let us see some facts.

According to the National Center for Education Statistics, overall, 53.9 million K–12 students were
enrolled in public and private schools in the fall of 2019. Of these students, 9 percent were
enrolled in private schools, and the remaining 91 percent were enrolled in public schools. Our first
observation is that almost 1 in 10 parents pay taxes for an education that their children do not
receive. And if we look at the poverty line, the US Census Bureau reported that 11.4% of the US
population lived in poverty in 2020, which means that, rounding up, only 1 in 10 people would
need free education. In addition, according to the same source, 16.5% of American adults do not
have children, so they are paying for an education that they will never receive. And maybe these
people need those resources for their health. On top of that, there is no place in the US
Constitution or Amendments that establishes education as a right or, furthermore, that others
have a right to our money for their education.

In the second place, we have the fallacy that education leads to the elimination of poverty. In line
with Maslow's pyramid, we first need to satisfy our primary needs. We cannot think about
education if we have not eaten first. That being said, it's the other way around, we need first to
leave poverty and then we can afford education. In parenthesis, we must say that politicians
abuse this fallacy to keep us under their control because with that pretext they offer their services
and then tax us to maintain a "free education" that will lift us out of poverty. Moreover, with that,
they increase the number of civil servants and the size of the government that rests on our backs.
And with this, they take our money, an action that in the end makes us poorer.

Finally, we must expose that all of those massive requirements to obtain a degree are an invention
of the political class that rules us. We don’t need formal education to get a profession. In the past
to become a lawyer, for example, the only need was to pass the bar exam. They at that time do not
ask you about grammar school or high school nor even at what university you graduated. The only
thing that you needed was that you had knowledge of the law. An example of that was Abraham
Lincoln and George Washington. Another example is the man listed as "the greatest American
architect of all time" by the American Institute of Architects, Frank Lloyd Wright, curiously, did not
possess an architectural degree. Even the medical institution was relatively free of heavy
requirements, you just needed to study medicine and with the diploma, you became a doctor.
Until the creation of the American Medical Association. An institution with which doctors were
gaining more and more power over society until turning it into what it is today: a great economic
monopoly that enriches itself at the expense of our health and money and lack of civic action in
the face of this atrocity.

In conclusion, it is immoral and illegal to steal money from one to give it to others for their
education. It must be paid for like any other good or service. In addition, you cannot get out of
poverty through education, on the contrary, you need wealth to educate yourself better. And
finally, everything is a system created by the same politicians and professionals to create barriers
that prevent you from developing freely in life. Education options should be free of choice,
everyone should have the option for instance to include self-education to obtain a profession.
Only after that, for sure, education will make us better, polite, civilized, caring about others,
friendly environment, open-minded, and of course richer.

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