What Does Free Education Really Cost?

Education!

Does everyone have the right to education?

Everyone has the right to pursue education.

Do you think they do?

Sure, they do. Everyone has the right to pursue their own education in whatever way they wish.

Does this mean everyone has the right to free education, though?

There is a difference between the right to education, the right to pursue education, and the right to free education.

Well, do you think it is okay to take it from the hands of one who labors and give it to the hands of one who is closed?

In other words, do you have the right to someone else's labor? Does someone else have a right to your labor?

It's easy to say "yes" to the first question because you get something you didn't work for or earn. But what about if you have to work and labor, but then it is taken from you to give to someone who didn't work for it or who didn't earn it? It's a lot harder to say yes when it is you who has to labor and you cannot keep what you earned.

As the saying goes,

"Give a man a fish and he'll eat for a day; teach a man to fish and he'll eat for a lifetime."

Your rights are protected so as to not allow anyone, the government included, to make you a slave or force you to work.

Forced labor just means that, under threat of punishment, someone or some entity is forcing you to do work you have not agreed to.

Slavery means you are just a piece of property that someone owns. You have no rights, no voice, and no choice.

Anyway...

With liberty comes the right to education.

But education is incomplete if it doesn't also teach the history of the country in which the person lives and the laws that govern it. Without the "why" (why was the country formed, the documents written, the sacrifices made, and the type of founding government chosen), the "who" won't matter to later generations, and the whole "what" will begin to falter and be reshaped in another image.

That was good. I want to say that again.

A question is: Why would anyone want to alter it? 🤔

Some rights, however, only apply to those under the legal authority of the government of the country they are legal citizens of.

Your right to education does continue beyond high school, too.

However, just as freedom is never free, neither are rights.

What do I mean by that?

You have a right to education to a point. As children, you require guidance and help in finding the correct materials and covering the costs for such learning. After that period of time, it becomes your responsibility to choose to learn, do the work to learn, and cover the costs of learning.

Remember:

Everything costs something.

Someone must pay the price.