The recent surge in public awareness and by extension participation has led to the renewal of several ideas, much more conscious in the public space than ever. This remains to be the case for even the now greatly institutionalized field of education, where conversations regarding the apparent quality and cost of education are abundant. Nonetheless, it remains to be true without a doubt that such conversations are required for the change they facilitate and in turn the progress they lead to; in hindsight Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw put it best: “Progress is impossible without change, and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything”. Moreover, such a claim remains to be most actively applicable in cases of education, the …show more content…
Furthermore, even in a country such as the US, a study regarding education among children with respect to economic conditions found a correlation between a student’s cognitive performance and poverty. Proponents of the free education movement often refer to such examples to illustrate how free education would allow these students to excel in an environment where education is of the utmost quality, however even if such were the case two major problems arise. The very first being the fact that even though education would be supplied for free institutions that do say may not possibly be in reach to rural poverty-ridden areas; a problem that necessarily isn’t a consequence of free education itself but a problem nonetheless, but one that will persist irrelevant of the pursual of such a system and as such requires perhaps an infrastructure development program. In addition, while that may be the case free education does fail to tackle all the factors that stem from poverty that disable a child to attain education to his/her fullest capabilities. This is best illustrated by an example: while “free” education may enable a child in poverty to “learn” for free, they may due to a lack of access to food or medicine suffer through a disease that ultimately prevents them in fully utilizing such a form of