"How does Germany manage to keep education free for all while the United States burdens the young with heavy college debt?

"In Germany, Russia, India, and most of the European countries, college costs are much lower than they are here in the US. I would say a lot of this is due to cultural differences. These systems are based on meritocracy, and that would simply never fly in American society. In the US, we work off the assumption that everybody should have an equal chance to succeed. No Child Left Behind is our educational motto, right? And if you don't succeed in college the first time, well, you can drop it, work for a few years, and try again. There are plenty of resources for everybody. Every individual is different, and some people just need more help than others. To this end, we have made colleges more like customer service centers. What the students need (or want), they get because the bigger the college, the better. Credit card companies wait at tables to sign up students, and student loans are readily available. They may rack up debt, but that's a small price to pay for being well rounded. The individual is king, and the sky is the limit. In these other countries, people have a whole different mentality. They know they don't have plenty of resources for everybody, so they make a concerted effort to flunk out as many people as possible at an early age, as early as second grade in some countries. There not doing this to be mean; its just the way things are. These students continue their education at a lower level and are funneled off eventually into trade schools, factory work, manual labor, etc. They are not second-class citizens there like they would be here, as this happens to most people at some point. That way, the countries limited resources in higher education are reserved for the gifted kids who will make the best use of them. The individual is subject to the limits of what their country has to offer. ( For more information contact via - 9999127085 / information@admissify. Com )". .

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