<story><title>NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyu-offers-full-tuition-scholarships-for-all-medical-students-1534433082</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Karishma1234</author><text>&amp;quot;Free&amp;quot; means someone else should be paying for it. Now, as an average income guy I will never earn as much as a Doctor and will vehemently oppose any move to pay for these would be rich people&amp;#x27;s education. If the degree is worth something, please pay it yourself.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Countries like Germany show&lt;p&gt;All these kids are more than welcome to go to Germany and save $500K in tuition fees.</text></item><item><author>geff82</author><text>What a surreal discussion about something obvious: University and college should be free for everyone. First, this is a great equalizer in the positive way: it does not depend on how wealthy your parents are, so you get an equal opportunity. Second: the society as a whole benefits from well educated people. Accounts need well trained doctors, doctors need well trained accountants, both need an engineer to craft them a reliable car, etc etc...&lt;p&gt;Countries like Germany show that university&amp;#x2F;med school can both be free and high quality. Od course also in Germany some private elite universities exists where you have to pay (it is ok, I like diversity). But to get a perfect career, a state run university is all you need.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>Broken_Hippo</author><text>&lt;i&gt;Now, as an average income guy I will never earn as much as a Doctor and will vehemently oppose any move to pay for these would be rich people&amp;#x27;s education&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;Yet... that would cease to be the case. You wouldn&amp;#x27;t be paying for rich people&amp;#x27;s education. You&amp;#x27;d be paying for education for whatever person put in the study time to be a doctor, based on actual merit instead of merit + money. It means that you would have that same chance at schooling. It would mean that doctors could make less money and it probably more likely to live in areas with fewer doctors.  And hey, if they become rich, they&amp;#x27;ll be paying it back into the system and paying for more education that you, as an average-income worker, ever would.</text></comment>
<story><title>NYU Makes Tuition Free for All Medical Students</title><url>https://www.wsj.com/articles/nyu-offers-full-tuition-scholarships-for-all-medical-students-1534433082</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>Karishma1234</author><text>&amp;quot;Free&amp;quot; means someone else should be paying for it. Now, as an average income guy I will never earn as much as a Doctor and will vehemently oppose any move to pay for these would be rich people&amp;#x27;s education. If the degree is worth something, please pay it yourself.&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt;Countries like Germany show&lt;p&gt;All these kids are more than welcome to go to Germany and save $500K in tuition fees.</text></item><item><author>geff82</author><text>What a surreal discussion about something obvious: University and college should be free for everyone. First, this is a great equalizer in the positive way: it does not depend on how wealthy your parents are, so you get an equal opportunity. Second: the society as a whole benefits from well educated people. Accounts need well trained doctors, doctors need well trained accountants, both need an engineer to craft them a reliable car, etc etc...&lt;p&gt;Countries like Germany show that university&amp;#x2F;med school can both be free and high quality. Od course also in Germany some private elite universities exists where you have to pay (it is ok, I like diversity). But to get a perfect career, a state run university is all you need.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>namdnay</author><text>&amp;gt; as an average income guy I will never earn as much as a Doctor&lt;p&gt;Maybe if you had had free education you could have been a high income guy, perhaps even a doctor!</text></comment>