Governments should offer college and university education free of charge to all students
“Governments should offer college and university education free of charge to all students”. I agree with this statement fully. Education must be heavily subsidized or free.
Education is, like fire trucks, transportation networks and military expenditure, a public service. It would be absurd to have a fire fighter hand you a bill after putting out a raging fire on your property yet paying large fees for a higher education is perceived to be normal. And out of all these public services I mentioned, a quality higher education is probably the most important. Because it is this education that will produce the cadre of scientists, engineers, doctors, lawyers, and politicians who hold the reigns in today’s technology driven world.
Imposing an economic barrier of entry to higher education immediately cuts off the less affluent sections of society, and bars access to students who may be as good, or better than those who can afford such an education. Moreover, it greatly reduces social mobility by making it impossible for the economically weaker sections of society to take up high paying jobs, by restricting their access to the required credentials. Those that do manage to scrape up enough for what should be a basic right, often find themselves saddled with atrocious amounts of student debt, that sees them spending the next several years toiling away to pay it off. If the moral implications of an expensive education weren’t bad enough, the economic implications are even worse! A higher student debt would force university pass outs to live frugally and below their means, thereby forcing a lot of money into the pockets of banks instead of having it circulate in the economy. University education is also increasingly being perceived as a bad investment in terms of returns on investment, and many people are looking at alternatives like vocational training. While there is nothing wrong in that, this will rob the world of skilled graduates who could’ve made an even greater contribution to society, the standards of living and the economy, for the sole reason that said graduates cannot afford their education.
Arguments like high fees allowing for better R&D are inherently flawed. Universities rarely rely on fees for research. The government often provides universities with large research grants, as these projects taken up by universities are usually at the cutting edge, and thus are of vital importance in the spheres of national defence, consumer goods etc. If a for profit university were reliant on fees to maintain profitability, it would be prudent to shift to grants from the government to keep the university profitable. It would be fair to raise taxes across the board to fund universities, if that means universities are accessible to everyone, irrespective of economic standing. Thus, there are few, if any reasons to maintain such large fees for what should be a public service.
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- The surest indicator of a great nation is represented not by the achievements of its rulers artists or scientists but by the general welfare of its people 62
- Teachers salaries should be based on their students academic performance 79
- In any field of inquiry the beginner is more likely than the expert to make important contributions 50
- Governments should place few if any restrictions on scientific research and development 58
- Governments should offer college and university education free of charge to all students 70
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 2, column 510, Rule ID: AT_THE_REIGNS[1]
Message: Did you mean 'hold the reins'?
Suggestion: hold the reins
..., doctors, lawyers, and politicians who hold the reigns in today’s technology driven world. I...
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Line 3, column 932, Rule ID: IT_VBZ[1]
Message: Did you mean 'circulates'?
Suggestion: circulates
...e pockets of banks instead of having it circulate in the economy. University education is...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, if, look, may, moreover, so, thus, while
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 23.0 19.5258426966 118% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 14.0 12.4196629213 113% => OK
Conjunction : 12.0 14.8657303371 81% => OK
Relative clauses : 10.0 11.3162921348 88% => OK
Pronoun: 30.0 33.0505617978 91% => OK
Preposition: 68.0 58.6224719101 116% => OK
Nominalization: 20.0 12.9106741573 155% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2461.0 2235.4752809 110% => OK
No of words: 474.0 442.535393258 107% => OK
Chars per words: 5.19198312236 5.05705443957 103% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.66599839874 4.55969084622 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.90804859038 2.79657885939 104% => OK
Unique words: 272.0 215.323595506 126% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.573839662447 0.4932671777 116% => OK
syllable_count: 780.3 704.065955056 111% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.6 1.59117977528 101% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 6.24550561798 128% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 6.0 1.77640449438 338% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 2.0 4.38483146067 46% => More preposition wanted as sentence beginning.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 24.0 23.0359550562 104% => OK
Sentence length SD: 76.6357720079 60.3974514979 127% => OK
Chars per sentence: 129.526315789 118.986275619 109% => OK
Words per sentence: 24.9473684211 23.4991977007 106% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.68421052632 5.21951772744 51% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 4.0 4.97078651685 80% => OK
Language errors: 2.0 7.80617977528 26% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 5.0 5.13820224719 97% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 3.0 4.83258426966 62% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.286448588469 0.243740707755 118% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.107013487529 0.0831039109588 129% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.214511458799 0.0758088955206 283% => The coherence between sentences is low.
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.244389471998 0.150359130593 163% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.236327657225 0.0667264976115 354% => More connections among paragraphs wanted.
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 15.5 14.1392134831 110% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 47.12 48.8420337079 96% => OK
smog_index: 11.2 7.92365168539 141% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.12 12.1639044944 108% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 9.02 8.38706741573 108% => OK
difficult_words: 126.0 100.480337079 125% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 7.5 11.8971910112 63% => OK
gunning_fog: 11.6 11.2143820225 103% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Better to have 5/6 paragraphs with 3/4 arguments. And try always support/against one side but compare two sides, like this:
para 1: introduction
para 2: reason 1. address both of the views presented for reason 1
para 3: reason 2. address both of the views presented for reason 2
para 4: reason 3. address both of the views presented for reason 3
para 5: reason 4. address both of the views presented for reason 4 (optional)
para 6: conclusion.
Rates: 70.83 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 4.25 Out of 6
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