Social Issues

Which is the real problem, the quality of education or the lack of accessibility to it?

Nowadays, it is very common to hear about the poor or the nonexistent quality in Chilean education, but are the young people really fighting only for a better quality? The real trouble I think, is because there doesn´t exist an equality to equal access to good education. Chile is one of the countries with the most expensive education in the world, but Chile isn’t the country with the best salaries in the world, so… Why is this happening? That should be the real question!

The collective insatisfaction is in my eyes totally understandable. People prefer to buy a house (that will last forever) rather than pay the same amount of money to study five years, it is a simple mathematics consideration. How can we make young people understand that studying is important? That they should study even if they haven’t got the money or they prefer to begin to work in order to make money instead of to owing?

It is a question of accessibility and inequality, if you want good access to anything (health, education, priorities in life) you must get into debt, (there always exist particular examples, but don’t go to the case) the real situation in today’s society is this: if you don’t have money you don’t have good access to the best service, you don’t have the opportunity to study in a very good school, or to enter to best Universities and like that, It is a vicious circle from which we can’t get away. It is very difficult to break the scheme but we need to do something, we can’t leave it as an unfair situation.

The opportunities to do something are the most important and the capacity or liberty of taking your own decisions, choosing, must be the same for everyone, and shouldn’t have privileges.