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RE: The illusion of FREE EDUCATION FOR ALL - An endless debate
I think you're right on the money with the funding colleges and other training opportunities. Its not just in SA; poor kids all over the world lack access to the foundation required to enter a university while the rich exploit grants and other funding. Rich kids have little interest in trades and other fields of work that pay well but are not SJW ... er ... university level and won't bog down the system.
Yes and in the case of the rich, many of them do not need to get any higher education, they will have the family wealth to always fall back on! This is not to say that rich kids don't deserve a position in University any less than a poor kid, but they should always fund their own way completely, or else the world trend of the rich getting richer will only get worse!
What!! How can you make this a rich-man-poor-man thing? Learning is expensive. It always has been. It's never been a free for all. Why should it be now? Those who are prepared to pay and are prepared to study should be allowed to do so without the nonsense of the ones who are only there to make a mockery of the institution. If you want to make money off your degree, you have to pay for it and EARN it first. Those who can't afford it, but really want to study, make a plan - like good grades and a bursary or study part-time while they work. The 'rich kids' who don't finish their studies, will never amount to anything anyway. It all boils down to those who WANT to and DOES and those who DON'T. It's the will to and not the cost. Nothing in life is free - Especially education.