Governments should offer a free university education to any student who has been admitted to a university but who cannot afford the tuition.
Write a response in which you discuss your views on the policy and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, you should consider the possible consequences of implementing the policy and explain how these consequences shape your position.
This essay discusses the notion whether the government should provide free university education to students who cannot afford the tuition, but have been admitted to university. The author will argue in favor of this notion, concluding that the benefits of such a policy, increased social mobility, resulting in a more egalitarian society, and a more meritocratic society in which more potential is realized, outweigh the downsides of the opportunity cost of not spending the money elsewhere and the fact that such a policy could be discriminatory towards people who can afford the tuition.
In most societies academic capital is one of the most important aspects, which determine whether an individual will have good chances of succeeding in most aspects of life. This social capital opens many doors not only on the job market, but also when it comes to social situations. People from economically underprivileged backgrounds often cannot afford university tuition fees, thus stopping them for acquiring this valuable social capital. This leads to a situation in which people with low economic capital are stuck in a position where they are not able to further develop their academic capital after school, making them less likely to break out of their underprivileged situation. This shows that tuition fees can lead to a self-perpetuating cycle, in which social classes are static. If the suggested policy change were to be implemented, it could be an important step towards breaking out of this self-perpetuating cycle, moving towards a more egalitarian society.
Furthermore, this policy would not only be beneficial towards equality for its own sake. It would also benefit society as a whole by enabling the greatest talents in a nation to realize their potential, making them more productive and in return increasing the welfare of society as a whole through the increased fruits of their labour.
On the contrary, one could argue that such a policy would be discriminatory against people who can afford the university tuition, therefore making society less egalitarian. However, this argument is not valid, since one has to bear in mind that the distribution of chances and opportunities was arbitrary, unequal and therefore unjust to start with and that this policy would only counteract this initial injustice. Additionally, to counteract this point the state could abolish tuition fees as a whole, also for people who can afford them. This still hast the positive effects of the first two paragraphs, but not the negative effects of discrimination. However, this would be even more costly than only paying for the tuition of people who cannot afford it, which brings us to the second counterexample.
The suggested policy costs money. This money has to be taken from some other resort in the governments budget or the taxes will have to be raised, otherwise a budget deficit will be created. In my opinion, however, there are few aspects which are more important than equality. Provided that the government has fulfilled its more fundamental responsibilities of ensuring security, basic infrastructure and a functioning justice system, equality in education is the next highest priority. Of this priority the suggested policy is one of the most important steps towards it.
To conclude, in my opinion this policy is advisable, provided that more important government responsibilities are not impaired by it.
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
also, but, first, furthermore, however, if, second, so, still, therefore, thus, as to, in my opinion, on the contrary, to start with
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 24.0 19.5258426966 123% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 21.0 12.4196629213 169% => OK
Conjunction : 11.0 14.8657303371 74% => OK
Relative clauses : 21.0 11.3162921348 186% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 33.0505617978 136% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 18.0 12.9106741573 139% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2879.0 2235.4752809 129% => OK
No of words: 544.0 442.535393258 123% => OK
Chars per words: 5.29227941176 5.05705443957 105% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.82947280553 4.55969084622 106% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.99699277531 2.79657885939 107% => OK
Unique words: 255.0 215.323595506 118% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.46875 0.4932671777 95% => OK
syllable_count: 923.4 704.065955056 131% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 11.0 6.24550561798 176% => OK
Article: 2.0 4.99550561798 40% => OK
Subordination: 4.0 3.10617977528 129% => OK
Conjunction: 4.0 1.77640449438 225% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 9.0 4.38483146067 205% => Less preposition wanted as sentence beginnings.
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 21.0 20.2370786517 104% => OK
Sentence length: 25.0 23.0359550562 109% => OK
Sentence length SD: 78.9608818446 60.3974514979 131% => OK
Chars per sentence: 137.095238095 118.986275619 115% => OK
Words per sentence: 25.9047619048 23.4991977007 110% => OK
Discourse Markers: 6.28571428571 5.21951772744 120% => OK
Paragraphs: 6.0 4.97078651685 121% => OK
Language errors: 0.0 7.80617977528 0% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 6.0 5.13820224719 117% => 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: 0.178554030467 0.243740707755 73% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.06670335058 0.0831039109588 80% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0818077201664 0.0758088955206 108% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.103821349037 0.150359130593 69% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0709733032308 0.0667264976115 106% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 16.4 14.1392134831 116% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 37.64 48.8420337079 77% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 14.2 12.1743820225 117% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.7 12.1639044944 113% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.74 8.38706741573 104% => OK
difficult_words: 133.0 100.480337079 132% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 20.0 11.8971910112 168% => OK
gunning_fog: 12.0 11.2143820225 107% => 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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