It’s necessary to have tuition fees.

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Tuition fees are necessary because that’s the only way to provide quality education.

That's exactly the propaganda they want you to believe - that somehow slapping a price tag on knowledge magically improves it. Look at the most innovative periods in human history: the Renaissance, the Enlightenment, the scientific revolution. Were those breakthroughs happening because people paid tuition? Of course not.Germany's public universities consistently rank among the world's top institutions while charging zero tuition fees [1]. Technical University of Munich ranks 28th globally, Ludwig Maximilian University ranks 37th - these aren't second-rate institutions scraping by without fees, they're elite universities producing Nobel laureates and groundbreaking research. Your argument collapses under its own logic. If fees were necessary for quality, how do you explain that Germany's universities are among the best in the world, with many institutions regularly ranking among the top 100 internationally? The corporate education model you're defending is a con game - extracting maximum profit while delivering education that's often inferior to what free systems provide. The real quality comes from treating education as a public good, not a commodity. Germans believe that education should not be treated as a commercial product, and that free access to higher education ensures economic growth and welfare for the greater population. When universities aren't chasing profit margins, they can focus on what actually matters - research, teaching, and developing human potential. Your "quality through fees" myth is exactly the kind of manufactured consent that keeps people accepting artificial scarcity in the midst of abundance.