In many places around the world, it is very common for there to be teenagers who are excellent students in high school, and they are dreaming to complete their study. However, they could not achieve their goals since they could not afford enough money to pay for university, or they need to work to support their family. This is really sad, because it is continuously happening, and the impact of this not only affects people themselves but also their countries. For instance, imagine there is a country that has natural resource, but the people there do not know how to use the resource available. This country cannot have any progress, and the resources would be wasted unless people gain knowledge of how to use them, which could be gained by studying. Truly, countries can develop only by the knowledge of its citizens. Citizens need to get enough knowledge to improve their society that would be improved when the education is free so they can educate themselves. In fact, many countries offer free higher education for their citizens such as Canada, Germany, France, and many other countries. In the United States the government offer free education until high school. After that the majority of universities are not free. Even though there are some free universities, Students usually take loans to study at universities. As a result, many students from low income families stop learning after high school and start working to support their families. 

Last year in the United States many people have been discussing President Obama's new proposal to make the first two years of college free for everyone. There has been much debate about how this proposal will affect the United States. Americans have extremely different opinions about this proposal. While many people think offering free tuition will have negative effects to the society, others believe it will have many advantages. Free tuition should be provided for citizens of all countries because it will offer great opportunities for them to improve their country and it has great impacts on individuals which could help students.

Although there are many reasons for offering free tuition, there are many social benefits from it as well. In an individual situation, getting higher education can help people find decent job to support their families and themselves. David Leonhardt, wrote in his article, "Is College Worth It? Clearly, New Data Say", points out many facts and statistics that prove that a degree is worth much more than its cost. The new data analyzing the Labor Department statistics, which is made by Economic Policy Institute in Washington, shows that "Americans with four-year college degrees made 98 percent more an hour on average in 2013 then people without a degree" (Leonhardt). This study confirms higher education is an important element to be well pay when getting a job and essential for personal needs. In fact, people will feel secure since this job can provide them with enough money for living. Moreover, higher education will help to be in the international competition. Michael Gonchar, wrote in his article, "Should a College Education be Free?" points out President Obama's propose which will widen opportunities to learn for everyone. He reports that President Obama said "It's something that we can accomplish, and it's something that will train our work force so that we can compete with anybody in the world" (Gonchar). This proves that even leaders of countries where students are used to paying for tuition are trying to offer free higher education since it is important to keep up with the global markets. Therefore, higher degree is an international passport. When anyone has an important degree, he can work anywhere. This is a great opportunity to see and learn about different cultures and to be an ambassador for your country. Thus free higher education will help people find respectable job inside or outside the country and they would be updated with global educational development.

Offering free higher education has a social impact not only for individual but also for the entire community. Usually each community is composed of different classes based in their income and standard of living. Universities with free tuition will give everyone an opportunity to study since applying will not be based on financial ability but only on academic excellence. With this approach, everyone will have equal rights to complete studying through hard work. Therefore, students from low income families will get the opportunity to succeed and achieve their goals, which they cannot achieve them without money unless the education is free. As Nikki Edgecombe says in her article "Aid Low-Income Students and Colleges That Serve Them," that the government should support the financially disadvantaged by free funding for school. In addition, at universities, students will be able to interact and get relationship with different races and social backgrounds. This will help them to accept and appreciate others. Furthermore, getting good higher education will help people find respectable jobs to meet their needs. As a result, crime would reduce in the community. According to Bob Samueles he says that communities that have higher rate of degree achievement have a high comfortable life and lower rate of crimes. Thus, it can be claimed that having free tuition will have both personal and public social benefits.

Also free higher education can help college students just to focus on their study rather than focusing on getting a job to pay their tuitions or taking loans, which most of students are doing now. "It helps students focus on learning rather than working so that they complete degrees faster and having acquired more skills" (Goldrick-Rab). And many college students are not completely doing their best in their classes due to finding jobs to pay tuition. They work so hard to find jobs but when it is free they could fully focus and get a high GPA to insure their career paths and graduate. American students who graduate are only 30 percent because of they are working while studying (Samuels). However, according to Michelle Simmons, in her article, "The Benefits of Free Higher Education," she reports that in the US students are spending 10 years for paying their debts, and "70% of college seniors graduated with debt in 2012" (Bryant). That leads them to spend most of their lives paying them off. As a result, they are not going to the college because they have a lot of loans and they can not afford it (Sanders). Therefore, when students are graduated and find their career path, their salary will not cover totally their loans. But when it is free they just need to concentrate on their study and do their best to achieve their goals without concentrating on other things that distracted them. 

Opponents of free tuition argue that offering free higher education will cost a lot and no one can do this, but they are looking only in short term affects. On the other hand, when free higher education is provided, there will be millions of students who will get benefit from this opportunity which will be worth much more than cost. Carey Kevin, writing in his article, "For Colleges, 'Free' Is About More Than Money", illustrates Cooper Union as an example for free university since 1859 but since a new building was stablished for $175 million loan and to pay back, this the university tuition was changed from being free to $20,000 per year (Kevin). This university was found by Peter Cooper who had the vision for free higher education and was willing to achieve his dream and help his society. Peter Cooper is a real example of how a normal person can help his society. Therefore, having free higher education is something possible to achieve especially when government, leaders, local people, and companies are working together.

Many people disagree about offering free higher education, because they claim that students would be careless, and the quality of education in schools would be poor. However, this is not true. Usually when offering free higher education, there are many requirements that student should get before he or she gets expect in the program. For example, in President Obama's proposal students should have at least 2.5 in average (Gonchar). This will ensure that students will study hard. Also they can put rules for student results to motivate them, which would be easy. Moreover, there is no proof that free universities have bad quality. In fact, higher education is free in Canada for example but the quality of these universities are high. Thus, there is no relationship between free tuition and careless students or poor-quality universities.

According to Charles Lane in his article, "College Doesn't Need to Be Free," he says that free education would decrease the economy and it does not have benefits, but Germany is a big example for countries that have free tuition they did not effected because they have high taxes (Attn). From a broader perspective the economy itself will benefit from offering free higher education. Jerry Parker, president of Delaware County Community College, writes about how Delaware County Community College is providing the United States economy with skilled employees. He says that "U.S. economy has improved and customer demand has increased" also U.S. manufacturing has raised but they did not find enough skilled employees to fit (Parker). Therefore, one way to maintain the economy progress is through preparing people with skills and knowledge, so they will be able to fill this needs and they will help the economy to continue its progress. Also the government could reduce the unemployment rate of 2 million people by making colleges free for everyone (Samuels). Thus, free education is important because it will help economy move forward.

Also another opponent is Andrew Kelly says that free college tuition will strain people budgets even more, resulting to decrease rather than increased access. But students are not going to college because they can not afford paying tuition, which resulted that the attendance rate will increase when universities are free. Also people are leaving their countries because they cannot afford the high tuition. Many countries especially European countries, their colleges are free tuition and this is the reason behind many Americans left the country and go to German colleges (Sanders). As a result, free tuition will help people to be educated.

In conclusion, education is an important element in the development of countries all around the world. Since countries progress through the knowledge of their people, government, leaders, and companies must work together to offer free higher education for citizens. By doing this, they can help to make progress for their countries. Even though some people believe free tuition will cost a lot, and affect the quality for both students and universities, the cost is worth in long term, and there is no concrete evidence prove that quality of both the students and universities will suffer. In contrast, there are many advantages for offering free tuition which include both socially and economically.

