I also agree with the topic but i want to open new areas for ”Free Education” topic because i’m working on this topic long time and i saw this is not so easy. And in Gezi Park protests in Istanbul, we also wanted to free education. Yes we have rights but goverments don’t think like us and if we want create a huge pressure for this right we should know some rules and realities. İf we’re not i think ”Free Education for Everyone” dream will only be an optimist dreams.

This ideasn which i explained in video are combine of some realities and bad thoughts which i faced while i was working on this topic.

Thank you for your attention.
Özgün K.
AEGEE – Istanbul

Concerning Ozgun’s opinion: The first declaration is that higher education (whic means here: universities) is optional. To me this seems to be dependent on the country one is talking about. My home country f. e., Germany, has not much natural ressources, so it must use brainpower as a “ressource” (this helped us to climb the ranks as Engineers Nation, however it seems that Germany is slowly dethrowned). So education can help to *increase* ecological welfare, hence putting educational costs on the expense bill only, is a wrong analysis i.m.h.o.
Social fonds as help for poor people will create also an expense, and I doubt that this will be much lower than just opening up the higher educational sector. In oder to prevent over-saturation of highly educated people (which I believe can actually occur) the standards of education must be elevated – so people who are “not clever enough” will recognize this very soon.

Concluding, I am in favour of an open educational system, for equality, quality and also economical reasons. Plus the simple fact that a highly developed country needs good people, no matter what income their parents have.

(And a small correction on Gerad’s introduction speech: Not *all* the education in Sweden is for free – the so called “komvux”, as I was told in a language course here in Sweden, must be paid privately. For “komvux” – english Wikipedia)