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Individuals (个人) should pay for their higher education.个人接受的高等教育是应该自费的。A university education is of huge and direct benefit to the individual. Graduates earn more than non-graduates. Meanwhile, social mobility is ever more dependent on having a degree. However, only some people have it. So the individual, not the taxpayers, should pay for it. There are pressing calls on the resources (资源) of the government. Using taxpayers’ money to help a small number of people to earn high incomes in the future is not one of them.大学教育使个人终身并直接受益。本科毕业生氏铅的收入高于非本科生。而且个人的社会阶层的也日益依赖于其学历。然而拥有高学历的群体也仅为少数。所以，那些接歼衫好受高等教育的"个人"——而非所有公民，是有义务交一定的费用的。政府自身资源应用于重要紧迫的事务，政府没有义务用公民纳税的收入去帮助这样一少部分人取得高收入前景能力。Full government funding (资助) is not very good for universities. Adam Smith worked in a Scottish university whose teachers lived off student fees. He knew and looked down upon 18th-century Oxford, where the academics lived comfortably off the income received from the government. Guaranteed salaries, Smith argued, were the enemy of hard work; and when the academics were lazy and incompetent, the students were similarly lazy.政府全力资助对于大学来说未必是好事。亚当斯密就读的一所苏格兰大学中，教师都是靠学费糊口。他知道这一点，同时也不屑于18世纪时的剑桥大学，那里的学者都靠着政府供给的丰厚收入活得自在。他强调，富足并固定的收入是勤奋进取最大的天敌。当那些学者开始懒散而无能，他们的学生必然也变得被动懒惰。If students have to pay for their education, they not only work harder, but also demand more from their teachers. And their teachers have to keep them satisfied. If that means taking teaching seriously, and giving less time to their own research interests, that is surely something to celebrate.如果学生必须交纳学费才得以接受高等教育，他们不仅会刻苦学习而且会对教师的能力要求更高。如此一来教师也必须不断保持自己能够胜任。如果这意味着对教师的要求更加严格而让他们无暇一心搞自己的研究，那么这确实是一件值得欣喜的好事。Many people believe that higher education should be free because it is good for the economy (经济塌磨). Many graduates clearly do contribute to national wealth, but so do all the businesses that invest (投资) and create jobs. If you believe that the government should pay for higher education because graduates are economically productive, you should also believe that the government should pay part of business costs. Anyone promising to create jobs should receive a gift of capital from the government to invest. 很多人们都认为更高等的教育应该免费因而对经济有益，很多大学生必然会为国家的富强做出贡献。但是同样做出卓越贡献的不止他们，还有无数行业同样投资并创造着职位(这为就业率做出巨大贡献)。如果你觉得只因为大学生的经济生产能力，政府就应该为高等教育买单，那你也应该承认政府同样得为上述那些产业的成本花费买单。那是不是只要有人许诺可以创造工作职位，那么他就有权收受政府的资金奖励呢？Therefore, it is the individual, not the government, who should pay for their university education.综上所述，接受高等教育的费用，应该由个人来出，而非政府的责任。
