Free Education

Income and social inequality has become commonplace in United States. If we see it from the point of view of educational haves and have-nots, the situation seems to be even worse. Skyrocketing cost of tuition and income stagnancy are the two most important factors for the pathetic educational state of the country. State funded educational programs are on the decline. More students fund their higher education from debt borrowing and once over with the college, they remain trapped in servicing their unmanageable debt for ages. In this paper, we present a critique of Adolph Reed's article “A GI bill for everybody”. Adolph Reed is a reputable political science professor at Pennsylvania. He also serves the board of Public Citizen Inc. He is also noted for co-chairing the campaign of Free Higher Education held by Labor Party.

Higher education is rightly perceived as the essence of building up ones genius. In United States, higher education stands among the most important considerations in the public policy. Higher education is turning expensive with times, and United States is no exception. In his article, Adolf Reed provides an analysis of present taboos related to higher education. He also presents a critical overview of the perceived implications of the GI bill that allowed war veterans access to free higher learning. According to Reed, every citizen could and should have higher education and post-secondary learning. He stresses on its importance by reinforcing the fact that high paid jobs were essentially those that required a relatively higher degree of learning. He presumes that more far-ranging solution is needed that goes to the heart of the problem. Adolph Reed, as part of a campaign of the Labor Party for "Free Higher Ed," has made the seemingly utopian but actually practicable proposal of free tuition for all qualified college students. He reasons that, if education is a social good, then we should support it; that it had great benefit, financial as well as civic, under the GI Bill and that, given current spending on loan programs, it is not out of reach (he estimates it would cost $30-50 billion a year, which only represents a portion of the military budget). In fact, it would save money, cutting out the middle men of banking. The present times warrant need for accountability as fiscal constraints are pushing people and organizations for increased productivity. Only freely available higher education can meet the ...