Final essay

The number of private universities that charge for education has been continuously growing in Chile, with higher fees each year. While some people feel that paying for education is the normal trend, others think that education should be free. How do you feel about this?

Education in Chile should be a right, something free and not a for-profit institution. The ultimate goal of education should not be to generate money, but to create honest people with the necessary knowledge to face the world, both personally and at work. In short, the purpose of education must be to train people. That is why it is strictly necessary that institutions such as universities change their system and join projects such as “gratuity”

over time, education in Chile has taken different forms, its system has changed in its administration, its curriculum and several other details such as the duration of classes, the ages corresponding to each grade, the existence of recesses and their times of duration, the way teachers have to interact with students, the way of teaching depending on the ages of the children and the degree in which they are among others.

Changes in education are due to the acquisition of new knowledge regarding pedagogical strategies, but they are also due to social transformations that occurred in Chile, to the different political opinions that have existed at the national level throughout Chilean history and to the changes in the economic system. . 

Within the transformations of the economic and political system, the most important thing for education has been the step from a system. The most important thing for education has been the transition from a more central planned system to a neoliberal system, which is characterized by privatizing most of the basic supplies such as health and education, therefore, since those change our education as schools, kindergartens and universities, have been in the hands of privates and have and have been transformed into private or private-subsidized institutions.

I believe that education should be free, because all people deserve to be educated, regardless of their socioeconomic status, which is not possible if we pay to go to university, because not all people will have enough money to be able to access to education superiors, as well as has been given until this last time. It seems to me that projects like "gratuity" are very relevant to generate a change in the education system and to bring us closer to a much more equal and accessible education for all people in Chile.