10 Reasons Why Education Should Be Free (Debate Points)

Education has been a stepping stone to the success of every individual and nation, which has made people wish for everyone to be educated because of its importance and benefits. Students have also debated on “Why Education Should Be Free”, and others saying otherwise.

However, offering free education comes with various benefits, also making education be paid for (Not free), also comes with its advantages. But for the sake of essay writing and debate purposes, I will be supporting Free Education for every young and determined person in society.

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What is Free Education?

Free education as the name implies is a situation where learning is offered without payment. Such as in many nations where governments build educational places, equip them with necessary learning facilities and ask young children in the country to come and learn without payment.

Most situations of free education are found in Nigeria, where we call public schools, built/owned by the federal government, so children are enrolled to learn while paying school fees.

Reasons Why Education Should Be Free

If you are supporting the motion that says education should be free, then write the below points that will help you gain winning points over your opponents.

1. Free Education Promotes Nation Growth

When education is offered without payment, there are higher number of people or families who will enrol their children on learning, which in turn will reduce the number of illiteracy in society.

Why most young children are seen roaming around without going to school because of the high payment for studies, and some families can’t afford to pay, making the level of illiteracy high.

Just imagine a country that has free education and many children are educated, they will turn out to build the country to be great, and will, in turn, help the growth of the nation, so this proves free education is better than paid.

2. Increase Literacy Rate and Reduce illiteracy

Yes, this is a fact that free education can lower the rate of Illiteracy in a country, because when a higher number of people can attend school and get educated, such will help many people gain knowledge and be well-trained for free.

Let’s say a nation has 50% of educated people because of paid education, don’t you think the rate will increase to like 80% and above if free education is offered? so this case proves that free education is good.

3. Free Education Lowers Students Debt

Student Debt in most countries is mostly accumulated because of paid education, which is something not really good, so offering free education is a helpful means to eradicate or lessen student debts.

So, who wouldn’t love it when student debt is lessened? Why won’t free education be appreciated if it lowers students’ debt? This proves another good essence of free education, which should be a thing to consider in every nation.

4. Promotes Equality Opportunity

When everyone can afford to go to school, this offers equal learning opportunities to everyone in a country, both rich and poor can go to school and learn equally.

However, when it’s a paid education, you will notice, that there are few people who will attend school or can afford education because of their background, so free education has offered learning opportunities to everyone.

5. Free Education Helps the Economy

You may be wondering how free education can help the economy. It has helped many nations and will keep helping in the aspect of building or educating people who will become helpful in creating things that can help the country.

For example, when free education is offered, engineers are trained, and they grow to build roads, buildings and other helpful infrastructure developments that help the economy, so you see how free education can help boost the economy, making it very important.

6. Students Focus More On Studies if It’s Without Pay

Free education helps students to focus more on learning without fear or worries about paying or school fees disturbances. When free education is offered, a child who can’t afford paid education will be going to school without payment, all the child needs to do is focus and learn.

Such a situation will help students learn with good facilities that they didn’t pay for and will make them worry less and focus, which will make them believe that free education is better than paid education.

7. Free Education Discovers Hidden Talents

Children with hidden talents and skills are discovered through free education because teachers’ teaching will help them explore and unveil those skills through proper guidance and mentorship.

No child will be discovered of their great talents, if not educated. So there are levels of skills that can be useful to the country, which can only be discovered when offering them the basic knowledge needed, which is a good aspect of free education.

8. Reduces Inequality Among People

When everyone is offered the opportunity to study in the same school, using the same facilities, no one will know if the other is poor or incapable of financing their children to school.

So free education, gathering everyone together to learn without demanding money, will surely reduce inequality among people in a country, making everyone move and talk to each other freely without discrimination or financial bullying.

9. Free Education Reduces Poverty

Poverty can be eradicated when everyone is educated and has well-paying jobs because educated people are well-paid and have a greater impact on society than uneducated people.

So the rate of poor people or poverty in a country is sure to be reduced when we have a high number of educated people, making free education better than paid education.

10. Improved Good Living and Better Health

When people are educated, they know how to live well and become healthy people because education has taught them good living principles and how to care for themselves.

In education, you learn about how to care for yourself, healthy things to eat and things to avoid, so free education will educate a large number of people on health and how to live a healthy life, making it better than paid education.

What are the Advantages of Free Education

1. Free education offers equal learning opportunities, which includes equal access to knowledge, learning facilities and others without minding your financial capacity.

2. Reducing inequality is another good advantage of free education.

3. Free education can help increase the literacy rate and also lower the rate of illiterate people.

4. Another good advantage of free education is that it can improve the nation’s growth, and reduce poverty among many, including reducing poverty in a nation.

5. Free education brings about good interaction or communication among people and promotes peace and unity as well.

Conclusion

With the above few points of mine, you can fully agree with me that free education is better than paid education, as it has great impact and importance to people and society.