In Poland we've got free public healthcare, free education (including college education), and they all suck.
Since they're being financed from public money, everything is cheap, education (especially higher education) is not about getting people to learn things, but to pass the biggest number of people so the school gets more money, you have to register like half a year before you get an endoscopy, not to mention anything more serious.
Higher education is, by its own definition, not for everyone. If everyone can afford it (when it's free of charge), it's going to be abused and it'll greatly degrade in quality of teaching.
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