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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mahadana_muththa" data-source="post: 31374734" data-attributes="member: 573673"><p>I appreciate the apology. And I respect your willingness to engage honestly. But some of the points you’re making still don’t hold up when we look at them properly. The idea that “free things have no value” sounds good on the surface, but it’s not really true. Air is free. Public roads are free. Basic healthcare and education in many countries are publicly funded. Their value doesn’t come from a price tag, but it comes from how essential they are and what people do with them. Education is the same. Its value comes from effort, discipline, and outcomes, but not from whether someone paid to enter. Also, think about fairness for a second. If someone is born into a poor family, does that mean they should automatically be locked out of education? That’s not “earning”, that’s just being filtered out before you even get a chance.For example, if you were born into a poor family, would this comment exist today? No right.  In the case of the United States, yes, places like Harvard University, Stanford University, and Princeton University produce innovation. No one denies that. But those institutions do not exist in isolation. They sit at the top of a system that includes massive government funding for research, strong public schooling, and state universities and community colleges to provide talent. Even in Sri Lanka, students who play sports well, score well in the Grade 5 exam, and pass the O-level get into the best schools in Colombo. But those poor schools should be closed? You can’t just pick the high scores and ignore the ground beneath them. And calling public universities or community colleges a “failure” just isn’t accurate. In reality, they educate millions of people, supply the workforce, and support economic growth. Most engineers, nurses, teachers, and even a large number of researchers don’t come from elite private universities. For example, when u admit to a hospital due to an emergency situation, would you ask the doctor which university he comes from? In Sri Lanka, your concern about things “going out of control” is valid, but the cause isn’t free education itself. The real issues are weak discipline and enforcement, poor university management, lack of accountability, and uneven quality across institutions. Blaming access instead of fixing these problems is like blaming roads for accidents. Also, linking crime, drugs, or violence to income level or background is not a good solution. Problems like that exist across all social classes. We call them white-collar thieves. Reducing it to “low-class people” is not only unfair, but it also prevents real solutions. because when there is such a mindset, people tend to suspect poor people instead of paying attention to the real points. And about Donald Trump, sorry to say this, this point made me laugh. because Donald Trump has become a Joke to the entire world. I have a few team members from USA(Natives). They also voted for Trump, but now they regret their decision.  His attempts to cut education funding have been widely criticized by economists and educators because they weaken long-term innovation and research capacity. Strong countries invest more in education, not less. At the end of the day, do we want a system that gives opportunity to "all capable people", or only to those who can afford it? Because if we limit education to money, we don’t create a better society. We just waste talent and lock inequality in place. If we really want progress, the focus should be on improving quality, discipline, and accountability, not shutting the door on people before they even get a chance.</p></blockquote><p></p>

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