Well, the case is the following, many people (especially the left) believe that public education is not only necessary, but it is also a right, and therefore in many left-wing countries they even try to guarantee education by law, forcing the State to create public educational institutions.
I don't doubt that in the heads of many (not all) of these people are the best intentions, many of them sin of believing that public education is a solution, but the reality is that neither in practice nor in theory has public education really been education.
To prove my point, here are the main problems of public education:
Since the goal of public education is to make education more accessible, many people who do not really want to study are "forced" (by social pressure, by parents, and in some cases by law) to study, which results in many of these people either not finishing school and dropping out in the middle of the year, or having a degree for a career that they will never practice. When a person abandons his studies after a couple of years, or when a person does not exercise his degree, it represents an expense for society, because the State is paying for a career that is not going to be exercised, and that large amount of money (because there are many people who do it) finished it without generating the slightest benefit.
Since public education is easily accessible, the number of students tends to increase, thus losing the quality of education. If you have a larger number of students, education must therefore be more basic so that everyone can learn, so a person with a real desire to learn must study more basic things because he or she shares classes with someone less interested or qualified.
The last big problem with public education is in its name, it is public. All State-run institutions tend to be coarse, corrupt and hopelessly bureaucratic.
I don't think that public education is necessary or useful if we consider that its objective is to educate the youth. I believe that every person is free to educate himself and institutions should not possess the monopoly of education. Although I believe that, as a social development, the increase and access to education through private sector methods should be sought.
But as long as public education continues to have the same foundation as today, I very seriously doubt that it can succeed.
Of course this is my opinion and I want to know what you think.
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