Free education

Now I will immediately respond to his case points.1. Education is the most important thing you can have, therefore we should make it available to everyone. Your argument is based on nothingness. Is education really the most important thing you can have? Is education necessary to do manual labor? No. Education is not the most important thing in this life. The most important thing in this life is your life itself. You can still lead a good one without education. Look at people like Steve Jobs, and Bill Gates. Did they go to college? No. Yet they are still near universally looked up to as heroes of the uneducated world.2. Everybody needs a higher education. You basically just reiterated what you said earlier, ignoring my refutation. Not valid.3. A lot of people can't go to college because it isn't free. To begin with, I'd like to say that my opponent's statistics are heavily exaggerated. 71.3% of students do not drop out of college. I'd like to see his source for this. Secondly, people can still get quality higher education for a cheap price. Hundreds to thousands of community colleges exist across the country that are extremely cheap. Cost is in fact, not a large factor in getting higher education, as community colleges fall under the title of higher education and are readily available to the public.4. "More people would be smarter. They would all have better jobs. "Not everyone can be a CEO, or an executive at AIG, or a pharmaceutical rep, etc. Manual labor is what runs the country. If all people had access to education, then to an extent you'd need an even HIGHER level of education to get a good job. All of a sudden, higher education would become thouroughly unimpressive. Yes. More people would be smart if they had higher education. They're already available to you at a convenient price. Look for your local community college.5. Without education some people will be denied basic education. I already refuted this. Please see my arguments above. She only reiterated what she had already said. Now, since my disadvantages of Free Education were completely ignored, I will simply extend them by copying and pasting them.1. SpendingDo you honestly think, that as our government is struggling to finance by CouponDropDown" href="#">high schools and middle schools they will be able to perhaps buy up all private universities, create their own, and manage them? No. We're already in a huge deficit and we need to cut back on spending, especially on things not necessary, like this. or we could have a communist revolution. Jk.2. Crowds out the private market. For hundreds of year reputable by CouponDropDown" href="#">colleges and universities have given the highest education to those daring enough to walk their halls. If we were to implement a free form of higher education, people would stop going to these private colleges, who will without a doubt provide a higher quality of education than public colleges, and start going to a lesser college simply because its cheaper. This already happens in the private scale in terms of higher education, but making college free would make this issue skyrocket. Not only is this a violation against the individual, but is in fact a means of providing insufficient higher education to those who would generally go to somewhere like Yale or Stanford. To summarize this debate so far: My opponent has provided a few advantages of free education, all of which I have refuted. While she says that people are denied access to higher education because of cost, I defined higher education as a college or university. This means that community colleges are readily available to any enterprising young adult who wishes for a better future. She ignored all of my disadvantages. I refuted all of her advantages. Con is winning. I look forward to my opponent's next argument.