Introduction
College education is a level of learning where by someone is prepared mentally and psychologically to face the world. In most cases, a college student is mature enough to face the challenges that can come across during this stage of learning. The maturity comes from having passed through primary school level to high school level hence giving the student enough years to think wide. After this level, some students get jobs or others decide to further their education.
According to me, this level of education should not be free since it can result to so many issues that can slow the expansion of education. For instance, if the college education were free, many students would relax knowing that they have all the time to study. This relaxation can lead to many students ending up aged since they do not feel the pinch in paying the fee. The rest can also lead to the crowding of students in their premises.
Lack of paying fees in colleges can also result to lack of quality education. Backing this factor, I would like to state that if the college education were free, the rules and regulation would not be fully adhered to giving the student room to indulge in many unwanted behaviors. After indulging in those behaviors, the students would not have enough time to study hence ending up to lack of quality education.
If the students do not pay for their fee, they would also not see the need of being in college. This paying of fee opens the eyes of a student to focus on his/her future. The focus comes after seeing the much that one is paying in studying. This gives the student the strength to work hard in order to recover the amount that one spends in paying the fee. This recovery of the college fee plays a great role in achieving the best and quality education for a student.
The paying of fee also slows the spread of irresponsible people after the study. This is because if the students had all the money in their pockets without spending in paying for their fee, they would indulge into so many behaviors both good and bad leading to irresponsibility. If the paying of fee in colleges was not there, the students could not see the need of been in colleges. Therefore, this paying of fee in colleges according to me plays a great role in ensuring that more students attend college.
Even though college education should not be free, the needy students should be assisted to pay their fees. The needy are the students who are unable to pay their fee due to some factors like poverty. These poor students should be looked upon to prevent them from discontinuing education due to lack of paying the cost of college education. Finally, I would like to state that paying the cost of education would make students grow and become people of great importance in the future. (College NET 2008)
Conclusion
Although college education is the level where the students are expected to become people of great importance to the society after their education, they should not be given the room to relax by been assisted to pay for their fee. Although this assistance would be good, it would give the students room to forget the need for the education. This assistance in paying the fee gives the student the room for oversight and allows them to work hard on their education.
Reference
College NET, 2008, Should higher education be free?. Web.