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

Knowledge is power, and becoming educated is worth much more than the cost of the tuition. The prompt urges that college and university education should be offered for free by the government. I strongly disagree with this claim and will elaborate on the necessary points to defend my position.

To begin with, the higher education system cannot afford to offer its services to the entire country free of charge. How will teachers get paid and how will the school be able to afford building anything new? Take for instance the many teachers at University of Berkeley that live on campus because they cannot afford a place to live while working on campus. Making it free for everyone would mean that these teachers would be getting paid less than they already are unless the money comes from somewhere else. The only other way we could fund these schools and those that teach there is by taking more out of everyone's taxes. A study from Stanford revealed that taxes would more than double if this recommendation takes place and teacher salary remains the same. This is important because not only can the system not afford to lose its profit from the service it provides, the general population cannot afford to pay the increased taxes that would result from this.

To expand on the point, not only would the schools not be able to afford paying their teachers, it would be nearly impossible to build new buildings for things like sports recreational centers, libraries, classrooms, and cafeterias to name a few examples. Not only would the quality of the education go down, the sports teams would suffer, and the class sizes would be gargantuan. A study from Yale looked at countries with public college education and compared the quality of their buildings to private schools in the United States and found that the amenities at these public schools were outdated by decades and falling apart. Having funding for rebuilding the school when necessary is important and why tuition should never be without cost.

On the other hand, in contrast to my stance on the topic, this recommendation would open the doors for the entire country to become educated. No longer would finances be the reason why anyone ends up not going to college. However, the government would have to fund this plan somehow and if the money isn't taken out of our taxes to pay for it, those seeking an education will end up with the repercussions. Thus, in order to preserve quality education for all, tuition must remain intact so that we can pay our teachers appropriately and afford to upgrade our facilities.

Nevertheless, although it is true that more people would have the opportunity to receive a diploma than ever before, for the reasons that I have described above it would not be wise to force governments to offer free college education to all students.

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Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 187, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to build'.
Suggestion: to build
...d how will the school be able to afford building anything new? Take for instance the man...
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Line 5, column 74, Rule ID: AFFORD_VBG[1]
Message: This verb is used with infinitive: 'to pay'.
Suggestion: to pay
...would the schools not be able to afford paying their teachers, it would be nearly impo...
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Line 7, column 301, Rule ID: EN_CONTRACTION_SPELLING
Message: Possible spelling mistake found
Suggestion: isn't
...fund this plan somehow and if the money isnt taken out of our taxes to pay for it, t...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
however, if, look, nevertheless, so, thus, while, as to, for instance, in contrast, in contrast to, it is true, to begin with, on the other hand

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

Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 17.0 19.5258426966 87% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 27.0 12.4196629213 217% => Less auxiliary verb wanted.
Conjunction : 14.0 14.8657303371 94% => OK
Relative clauses : 11.0 11.3162921348 97% => OK
Pronoun: 42.0 33.0505617978 127% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 62.0 58.6224719101 106% => OK
Nominalization: 17.0 12.9106741573 132% => OK

Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2361.0 2235.4752809 106% => OK
No of words: 484.0 442.535393258 109% => OK
Chars per words: 4.87809917355 5.05705443957 96% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.69041575982 4.55969084622 103% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.47022688554 2.79657885939 88% => OK
Unique words: 244.0 215.323595506 113% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.504132231405 0.4932671777 102% => OK
syllable_count: 730.8 704.065955056 104% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.59117977528 94% => OK

A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 5.0 6.24550561798 80% => OK
Article: 8.0 4.99550561798 160% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 3.10617977528 32% => OK
Conjunction: 3.0 1.77640449438 169% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK

Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 19.0 20.2370786517 94% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 54.4782861011 60.3974514979 90% => OK
Chars per sentence: 124.263157895 118.986275619 104% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.4736842105 23.4991977007 108% => OK
Discourse Markers: 7.57894736842 5.21951772744 145% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 3.0 7.80617977528 38% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 4.0 5.13820224719 78% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 4.0 4.83258426966 83% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?

Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.162255838418 0.243740707755 67% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0608696098746 0.0831039109588 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0971104028741 0.0758088955206 128% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.126719033601 0.150359130593 84% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0812633909858 0.0667264976115 122% => OK

Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 54.56 48.8420337079 112% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 11.9 12.1743820225 98% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.32 12.1639044944 93% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 7.88 8.38706741573 94% => OK
difficult_words: 92.0 100.480337079 92% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.5 11.8971910112 71% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => OK
text_standard: 12.0 11.7820224719 102% => OK
What are above readability scores?

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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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