Is education a financial burden

[Nomad]

Every month I spend $200 on my kid;s school fees when my combined expenses for rent and utility bills is under $200. My food expenses is under $150. paying for my kid's education is my number one expenses and sadly there is no way I could cut off that expenses. If you are a parent or if you are still in college/school, do you think education is a financial burden for you as well.

 

[eLdavis]

Though I am not a parent yet but from what I have seen, education can be considered a financial burden. The end results is good but getting to the end is where the problem lies.

 

[Xtynehappy]

For me l can say that education can be a financial burden at the initial stages when pursuing the course but profitable after one gets the jobs.

 

[eLdavis]

Yes it can become profitable when you start using it to generate money, but the process to get there is never easy in anyway.

 

[Springtime]

I consider education as an investment. Indeed, you have to pay for getting education. But you may earn more and have a successful career getting education.

 

[Trush Jodie]

I am not among those that call education a scam. It gives you a chance to grab opportunities that would reward you financially.

 

[King Belieal]

As far as I am concerned, education is not a financial burden. I am better financially today because I had a sound education.

 

[Fidelia]

What makes people to see education as a financial burden is because they saw education as a form of direct investment that would give immediate returns.

 

[Starmix]

There are parents who struggle a lot in sending their kids to school especially in the tertiary level when a kid enrols a four of five year degree course. But the expensive education only happens or occurs in private schools colleges, and universities. In my country tuition is 100 % free from the primary up to college. There is free tuition here in the Philippines in colleges and universities owned by the local and national government. There's no kid left behind in education.

 

[Suba]

I often take courses at my own expense, and I think education costs are an investment in the future, if your child succeeds then the hard work and education costs you have spent will be forgotten.

 

[Min George]

Sending your kids to school and good schools at that would help the financial future of that child. It is not a burden.

 

[Miley]

I just graduated from college. I know that I have spent a good sum of money to get a college education. It was like a burden before but I immediately used that qualification to get a reasonably paying job.

 

[Kera]

Education only becomes a financial burden to people that don't get to use what they studied in school to earn.