Once poor, always poor?
That’s where I can see the efficiency of free education.<p>I live in France and I come from about the median class. I didn’t struggle in my education.<p>But while I was a student, I saw quite a lot of people, who came from poor family being able to catch the opportunity to leave this poverty. Of course they still struggled more than me to pay their day to day expenses while I had the chance to be backed by my parents. Some of them have a better situation than me.<p>Of course, the fact that I was surrounded by tech students probably is an important variable. But I saw it happening outside of this circle too.<p>Don’t get me wrong, it’s far from enough, and there is still a lot of people abandoning studies because of money issues in France and we should fix that.<p>But managing to get through your studies to your first job with zero, or some manageable debt, is the way to leave poverty.