Future Studies: Free and Low-Cost Education After High School 
Abraham Shemiran
S.White
RWS 375
15 September 2015
Future Studies Essay
What can we expect from the future? . In our global society, many intellectuals are advocating to emit what the future should embody. Every era imagines a better future, but often not as easy to determine what types of advancement the future will manifest. Intellectuals can only research and study trends and from those trends possibly make a scholarly guess on what the outcome may be. Further, if we want a better future for our global society then we as individuals or collectively must insite new trends, philosophies and advancement. Today’s intellectuals have many different ideas of what needs to be done to evoke our species to want to invent a better tomorrow. In order to make society evolve our main way to change society for the better is to mainly perpetuate ideas or “self replicators” ,which Daniel Gilbert argues are ideas that contain a major goal of passing beliefs to other people to differentiate the way their brains operate and how they see the world. In my essay I will focus on the benefits of education after high school becoming free or costing less. I will justify my reasoning through the close examinations of articles relating to my topic , for or against, that will identify the cultural ideas, attitudes, and beliefs being explored in juxtaposition with Gilbert 's idea of a self replicator.
Ultimately to start with , When society has the subject of free to cost lessened education , initially we would hope that our quality of education stay intact. Quality of education is still important to the overall goal of cultivating the minds of the future. An argument against free or cost lessened education would be that like the universal healthcare that has been enacted in the U.S system, if education were to take the same course, the quality of our education would decrease. Elizabeth Marcello , a sophomore at the College of William & Mary, argues this very concept of it being
S.White
RWS 375
15 September 2015
Future Studies Essay
What can we expect from the future? . In our global society, many intellectuals are advocating to emit what the future should embody. Every era imagines a better future, but often not as easy to determine what types of advancement the future will manifest. Intellectuals can only research and study trends and from those trends possibly make a scholarly guess on what the outcome may be. Further, if we want a better future for our global society then we as individuals or collectively must insite new trends, philosophies and advancement. Today’s intellectuals have many different ideas of what needs to be done to evoke our species to want to invent a better tomorrow. In order to make society evolve our main way to change society for the better is to mainly perpetuate ideas or “self replicators” ,which Daniel Gilbert argues are ideas that contain a major goal of passing beliefs to other people to differentiate the way their brains operate and how they see the world. In my essay I will focus on the benefits of education after high school becoming free or costing less. I will justify my reasoning through the close examinations of articles relating to my topic , for or against, that will identify the cultural ideas, attitudes, and beliefs being explored in juxtaposition with Gilbert 's idea of a self replicator.
Ultimately to start with , When society has the subject of free to cost lessened education , initially we would hope that our quality of education stay intact. Quality of education is still important to the overall goal of cultivating the minds of the future. An argument against free or cost lessened education would be that like the universal healthcare that has been enacted in the U.S system, if education were to take the same course, the quality of our education would decrease. Elizabeth Marcello , a sophomore at the College of William & Mary, argues this very concept of it being
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