So there is a large market for language teaching with rather keen competition among schools. Special private vocational schools and institutes at university level have begun to rise in new areas of learning. One of the first fields to be cultivated by private educational enterprise was the training of medical assistants and training for work in the catering and tourist industries. In recent years there have been a growing number of schools for information processing and business administration. Some of them can be considered pioneers in their fields or competitors with state schools for efficiency of teaching.
Authorities have to worry a great deal about the cost of education when they draw up their budgets.
Citizens hardly know how much the state or a local community spends per capita of the school population. Neither do they know how much they profit from the general taxpayer in the bringing up of their children or how much they in turn pay for other people's children to be brought up at school. The value of a product supplied or a service provided is measured or roughly guessed not only by its utility but also by the use one actually makes of it. In education, learning matters more in the end than teaching. It is only much later that one finds out what one owes to the schools one has been to.