Instigator / Pro
0
1510
rating
10
debates
65.0%
won
Topic
#5648
College tuition should be free
Status
Finished
The debate is finished. The distribution of the voting points and the winner are presented below.
Winner & statistics
After not so many votes...
It's a tie!
Parameters
- Publication date
- Last updated date
- Type
- Standard
- Number of rounds
- 3
- Time for argument
- Two days
- Max argument characters
- 10,000
- Voting period
- One week
- Point system
- Multiple criterions
- Voting system
- Open
Contender / Con
0
1465
rating
30
debates
58.33%
won
Description
Regardless of the outcome, the goal of this debate is to educate the audience and each other about the pros and cons of free college tuition.
Vocab:
Free (adjective)
Definition: costing nothing or not needing to be paid for
Tuition (noun):
Definition: the money paid for being taught, esp. at a college or university
Round 1
Forfeited
'Ello?
Round 2
Forfeited
Completely free access to college would be unsustainable in smaller schools, shutting down access to eduction in some rural and poor areas.
Additionally, without students having some stake in their education, they would be a lot less motivated to attend classes, get good grades, ECT.
Round 3
College tuition should be free because it gives everyone equal access to higher education and the opportunities it brings.
According to the National College Attainment Network, many students can only afford 24% of four year colleges and 40% of two year colleges. This causes many students to under-match or pick schools mainly based on what they can afford, essentially limiting the options they have that can push them to their potential. Situations like this can create a gap of knowledge and experience between those who can pay the tuition and those who can't. Thus, in order to ensure that there's equality in terms of potential from these schools and opportunities, tuition should be free.
Your argument is that we should make college free to increase access to education.
Then we should give every homeless person a house and drastically reduce poverty.
Then food should be free so everyone can eat healthfully.
We should make the world a utopia to reduce depression.
Do you see the many issues with these statements? Yes, if everyone could afford great colleges the world would be better, but the thing your argument excluded was logistics. If college was free there would hardly be many great colleges left. There is good reason that state colleges cost money.
Nothing is ever truly free. In order to sustain quality education and prevent the closing of thousands of colleges would be to implement monuments tax increases, the like of which would be unsustainable.
Vote con for arguments, as my opponent's argument's lacked substance and did not address any of the problems present with their position.
Vote con for conduct, considering that my opponent forfeited two thirds of the rounds and only published a single argument in the last round, providing no explanation.