Archive | July, 2013

09 July 2013 ~ 0 Comments

The case against a ‘free’ education

by Carlos Alberto Montaner (Miami Herald) What a hornet’s nest. I wrote that it seemed cynical for Chilean university students, adults who presumably are responsible, to insist that others pay for their education and, on top of that, to demand the shutdown of any profit-driven universities. A lot of people did not agree with me. […]

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06 July 2013 ~ 42 Comments

La buena educación

por Carlos Alberto Montaner (FIRMASPRESS) Menudo lío. Escribí que me parecía cínico que los estudiantes chilenos, gentes mayores de edad y presumiblemente responsables, se empeñaran en que otras personas les pagaran los estudios universitarios y, encima, pidieran la clausura de las universidades creadas con fines de lucro, y mucha gente no estuvo de acuerdo. Al […]

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