I have chosen the above topic for my essay because as a student, I can deeply relate with the subject and present more comprehensive arguments. First off, I must declare that I am a firm believer of free education. It is not because I would financially beneficial for me. I look at this proposal solely from an ethical, economical and societal point of view. Before having a discussion about the ethic of free education, we must first be able to agree on the ethicality of equity. Equity means to have equal amount of opportunity, which people sometime purposefully or accidentally confuse with equality of outcome.

For me, giving everyone to have the same chances is the right thing to do, since it allows for actual people with merits and skills to contribute to society. Free education is the foundation of equity, because depriving people of education based on their parents’ financial capability and not their academic achievements is both illogical and immoral in a modern society. Since everyone are born equal than at the very least, education should be a right and not a privilege. From an economic and social view, free education is undoubtedly a boon to the development of society. We can consider free educational system to be a wider net to catch talented individual than our current tuition-based system.

Theoretically speaking, free education will generate the most skilled workers and increase the probability of exceptional individual appearing in our world. People like Einstein, Steven Hawking or Thomas Edison are all rarities that fundamentally drive the progress of our world. However, they can only do so because they have education as their base and they were able to build on it to achieve incredible achievements later on in life. One can imagine the detrimental impacts to our society if anyone of them didn’t receive an education and go unnoticed and unrecognized.

Among those who are currently deprived of education due to financial limits, there are bound to be those with as much if not greater capabilities and potentials than the previously mentioned figures, but never got the chance to unlock them with education. Free education will at least allow us as a society to not miss out on these individuals and the economical benefits and societal gains that they could bring.