Students and radicals played an important part in forcing the Whitlam government to implement the free education system as well as opposing the introduction of tertiary fees in the 1980s.
Under capitalism, education, like food, computers, and medicine, is taken on as a private profit making enterprise, not because education is unimportant, but because it is so important (like all private enterprise this leaves room for private charity, but this is a secondary issue).
What the advocates of "free"education espouse is not leaving individuals free to pay for their own education, or free to pay for the education of another, or free to decide on the content of that education.
In truth, public "free"education has achieved its goal perfectly -- it has turned a potential free-thinking child that will fight for freedom, into a adult incapable of abstract reasoning, that demands to be enslaved by the state.
Under capitalism, education, like food, computers, and medicine, is taken on as a private profit making enterprise, not because education is unimportant, but because it is so important (like all private enterprise this leaves room for private charity, but this is a secondary issue).
The only "free"education under capitalism is provided by private individuals, i.e., parents paying for their child's education, i.e., individuals acting as a group, e.g., church groups and non-religious groups.
What the advocates of "free"education espouse is not leaving individuals free to pay for their own education, or free to pay for the education of another, or free to decide on the content of that education.
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