Category: ENgLIST – Slovenia

Sam Stroud Opinion Editor Before I address the topic at hand, free education, I feel several disclaimers are in order. First and foremost, I am offering AN American perspective, not THE American perspective.  While I believe my opinion on this matter certainly does reflect the views of many Americans, it would be ludicrous to say that my viewpoint is wholly representative of my country’s perspective on education.  This issue in particular is one that has been under intense debate in American society now for many years. I firmly believe that…

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Nadja Jukič Contributor  How would you like your education free? As it happens, very much. But it’s also more complicated than that.  I can still remember my first time hearing some people have to pay to attend university, college, or whatever their various equivalents might be. To a teen growing up in a country only just transitioning out of socialism, such a notion was almost too extraordinary to be taken seriously. I had to be assured it wasn’t a joke. In hindsight, this was the first culture shock I ever…

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