<p><pre><code>    Education should not cost anything at all.
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Bikeshedding!<p>Education always costs a great deal. Teachers need to be paid, schools need buildings, universities needs labs, etc.<p>The only question is how payments are organised: taxes, fees, some hybrid ... Whatever mechanism is chosen, somebody feels hard up and will seek to change it.<p>Yet, it&#x27;s always the old paying for the education of the young, just like it is always the young paying the oldies&#x27; pensions.