issue 25 处女作，求拍！

jamesthu

Governments should offer college and university education free of charge to all students.
写作要求Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape your position.

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1 免费的教育可以使得来自贫困地区的学生有足够的经济支持，使他们专心学术。所有人都在一个起跑线上
2 然而，一方面：免费教育给政府带来过多经济负担。用于对富裕家庭孩子的学费可能去解决更急迫的问题。政府只能增加税负，或者不解决这些重要问题, 埋下不稳定因素。 另一方面：本来不应该得到学费减免的学生有可能炫富，影响学术氛围。社会的公平性实际是被破坏了
3 需要建设一个更加综合的机制，入学的时候给每个学生经济评估，对于真正需要的学生给予学费减免。多种形式：非政府机构设立的奖学金，低息银行贷款。

Sharing an opinion that the upcoming generation are the brick layer of the future, education has always been our primary issue, and some people therefore propose that governments should offer college and university education free of charge to all students, holding a belief that it’s essential to make the high education accessible to everyone. I concede with the speaker’s assertion insofar as government should do its best to provide college educational opportunity to as many people as possible. Yet the assertion that all the students should be exempt from tuition is somewhat arbitrary and unpractical, even may bring about some adverse effects.
There is no denying that exemption of fees of all students has some merits. It will ease the financial burden of the students to a large degree, especially for those who are from impoverished family. without such a pressure, students could be more focused on their study, rather than be forced to do some part time job to finance their tuition . Beides, this unified policy provides students a equal startpoint, which some people may consider essential for government creating a society with more equity and fairness.
However, the assertion goes to far in providing equal opportunities. For one thing, the free high education lays too much burden on the government finance, taking up too much taxation which could be used to tackling more exigent problems, such as unemployment, hunger, or popularization of primary education . Imagine that the money, which could have help some children who cannot even afford to go to primary school, would be spent on someone from affluent family, who do not even concern whether the college education is free, or how much money he or she spent. To guarantee the free high education, the government would have to either increase the tax rate, which may already be so high to bear for some family in poverty, or leaving other urgent problem unresolved, both of which would sow the instable factors to the society. For another, with more money saved, some students may lead a more extravagant life, showing off their wealth, undermining the academic sphere in the school. Under such circumstances, the equity of society is actually compromised, for the rich ones get the unnecessary financial exemption.
In the light of the forgoing statements, absolute free-of-charge high education to all students is an untenable suggestion, instead, a more comprehensive tuition system should be established. First and foremost, an assessment of the students’ family financial situation is indispensable when they enter the college, and university should offer the tuition exemption, wholly or partially, for those who are really in need. Besides, other forms of financial aid could be implemented, such as scholarship from some non-government institutions or low interest bank loans, which could not only ease the government financial pressure, but would incent students to be more hard working as well.
To sum up, government should always find a way to provide better education with equal opportunies to every citizen, yet there is no simple solution that can address the issue once and for all. Only through a comprehensive and practical mechanism like the one mentioned above, can government really provide an educational system with greater equity, underpinning the society’s progress.

普渡哥

对于富裕家庭学费就是毛，所以免学费和富二代眩富没有任何因果关系

jamesthu

确实感觉这个理由很弱啊，但是除了这个和给政府增加经济负担意外，木有想到其他理由了

竹林中人

确实感觉这个理由很弱啊，但是除了这个和给政府增加经济负担意外，木有想到其他理由了

-- by 会员 jamesthu (2012/4/17 21:09:35)

关于第二点，我觉得是这样的，全部免费，由政府埋单，增加了政府财政负担，尤其是不发达地区的负担。另一方面，全部免费，也会消弱学生的积极性，因为很多学生是通过刻苦学习或者社会实践来获得免学费的奖学金，如果全部免费，这样的功效就失去了。关于第三点，一是要建立好一个好的评估机制，让真正需要的人能享受免费大学教育，再就是引进社会资助，这样也可以减小政府财政负担