Student Loan Is The Most Powerful Weapon - 1302 Words

Education is the most important tool a person can have, Nelson Mandela believed that â€Å"Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.† Education is a tool that cannot be taken away. This is what makes it so powerful, conventional weapons break down, fail, and can be taken while knowledge cannot be. Sadly student loan debts are increasing at an alarming rate. The days of working all summer or part-time throughout the school year in order to pay tuition are long gone and private student loans are the only viable answer for many students aspiring for a professional career. I believe that student loan forgiveness is an issue of the utmost importance in regards to making education more accessible and affordable for†¦show more content†¦The next argument is that we simply cannot afford it. The United States put an average of 663.4 billion dollars per year from 2010 to 2015 into our military (Davies, 2015). For a comparison the Chinese who h ave the world’s second largest military spent around 145 billion in 2015 (Wong, Buckley 2015). If we can afford to put hundreds of billions of dollars into our military each year then why can’t we afford to educate the future workers and professionals of America? There is no need for that much spending on our military and it can be moved from the military into education in order to make higher education more affordable. Critics are focusing only on one of the major issues, which is the issue of money and they are completely ignoring the ideological issues. Education is extremely important and is necessary in order for people to support themselves and their country. Education is a fundamental human right that is necessary in order to promote individual freedom and exercise other rights (United Nations). Education is a necessity in America but has time goes on it is getting far more difficult to obtain. Education benefits not just the individual who is obtaining the educ ation but it is â€Å"a public good and an investment in our collective future as a country† (Applebaum, 2014). A