Government should offer college and university education free of charge to all students

Education is not only knowledge, but the application of knowledge to succeed in life. There have been many innovative changes in recent years to provide all-round education to students globally. The prompt suggests that government should provide a completely funded college and university education to all students. In my opinion, I mostly disagree with the prompt for the following reasons.

To begin with, not every college or university is government funded, some of them are private institutes that work on students fees. The infrastructure provided to students, the fees provided to faculty, and other management costs come from the revenue generated by student fees. Thus, if the government made this education free of charge then it would be difficult for universities to pay their faculties and invest in the infrastructure. This would result in poor quality infrastructure for students and professors working on minimal wages. For instance, in a country like India where the population is in the billions and growing, it’s difficult to provide free education for every single student in college or university. It would result in a lack of funds for the country’s other operations like military, healthcare, and transport.

There is a popular saying “Anything that is free has no value”. People might question the quality of education, and may even send their children to study abroad while paying in lump sums. There would be only a handful of students who actually might benefit from the ‘free education scheme’ of the government. In contrast, if parents pay for the education of their children then they might be even more obligated to study hard and value the education they receive.

Government does have schemes that actually provide scholarships and quotas for the needy. Most students who do not afford education, do get benefitted from these schemes. For instance, in India there are various scholarships for students in economically weaker sections like Dr. A. P. J. Abdul Kalam Scholarship, Shiksha Abhiyan Scholarship and many more. Students can apply for these scholarships, provide valid proofs and can be funded their college and univeristiy education. Government of India also has reservations for economically weaker sections like Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribes, Other Backward Caste, which helps students from these backgrounds secure a place in reputed and top universities in India.

In conclusion, it is not imperative that the government provide free education to each and every student in colleges and universities, but the government should definitely have schemes and scholarships for those who really need it. This would give each individual a chance to gain education and knowledge and prosper in his/her life and career.

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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, if, may, really, so, then, thus, while, as for, for instance, in conclusion, in contrast, in my opinion, to begin with

Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 19.5258426966 67% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 23.0 14.8657303371 155% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 28.0 33.0505617978 85% => OK
Preposition: 54.0 58.6224719101 92% => OK
Nominalization: 27.0 12.9106741573 209% => Less nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2352.0 2235.4752809 105% => OK
No of words: 434.0 442.535393258 98% => OK
Chars per words: 5.41935483871 5.05705443957 107% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.56428161445 4.55969084622 100% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.9418432299 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 218.0 215.323595506 101% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.502304147465 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 727.2 704.065955056 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 6.0 6.24550561798 96% => OK
Article: 3.0 4.99550561798 60% => OK
Subordination: 2.0 3.10617977528 64% => OK
Conjunction: 5.0 1.77640449438 281% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 6.0 4.38483146067 137% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 20.2370786517 109% => OK
Sentence length: 19.0 23.0359550562 82% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.3709230803 60.3974514979 75% => OK
Chars per sentence: 106.909090909 118.986275619 90% => OK
Words per sentence: 19.7272727273 23.4991977007 84% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.31818181818 5.21951772744 121% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 12.0 10.2758426966 117% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 6.0 4.83258426966 124% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.339953737434 0.243740707755 139% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.101517643092 0.0831039109588 122% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0991217666538 0.0758088955206 131% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.205280025155 0.150359130593 137% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0752142300428 0.0667264976115 113% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.0 14.1392134831 99% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 43.73 48.8420337079 90% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 14.16 12.1639044944 116% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.58 8.38706741573 102% => OK
difficult_words: 110.0 100.480337079 109% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 10.5 11.8971910112 88% => OK
gunning_fog: 9.6 11.2143820225 86% => OK
text_standard: 9.0 11.7820224719 76% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 66.67 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.0 Out of 6
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