by Al Harven Sr

Created on: November 19, 2010

A College education should be available for any one who wants it.  It is clear to me that American education will only be available for the few, because of the rising college fees and tuition cost.  Most college students and potential college students will not have the opportunity to attend college because they can not afford to do so.  It seems that America is separating as in the past to an Elite class of citizens with an education and the non-elitist class without an education.  This is an platonic ideal of the republic. 

Plato (Aristocles) wrote a treatise regarding The Republic which separates society into two classes of people the "aristocracy and the peasant class."  The elite aristocracy were the most educated ruling class and the peasant class were the farmers and working class of people who were not afforded the privilege to attain an education.     Our founding fathers adopted the ideas of Plato and created the "Republic" for which America stands as one nation under God with liberty and justice for all."  It is evident that was built for all, and therefore education should be for all, but it is not.  Our education system is rapidly becomeing an elite institution for the haves and not the have not.  If all Americans can not afford an education then we are truly becoming an Republic and not a Democracy.  Under a democracy all citizens are allowed to attend college to attain an education for "FREE," paid for by the citizens of the tax payers. The notions of tuition was designed to in the medieval time period to pay for staff and instruction cost,for the education of roman catholic clergy, not for the students to attend college.  By the way, the word Tuition means instruction or teaching and not money, money, and more money! 

Education is designed by the founding fathers of our educational system to be free to all who have a desire to become educated.  It is a fact that not every person wants to attain an education, but education is free to all who wants to obtain such a high venture. 

Anyway the questions still remains should college education be for the many or the few, my argument is for the many.   We need to get a grip on our educational system and the powers that control the system and let them know that education is a free service that all people should be able to afford; but too many students are being forced out of their educational hopes and dreams of becoming viable and responsible civil servants for their benefit and the benefit of our society. 

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