Education, protests and misconceptions
As a state university student, whenever there is a protest by university students, I hear a lot of public outcry by both educated and uneducated telling that "It is only in Sri Lanka that it is happening. All because of free education, students do not value the education given to them. In all the western countries students have to pay for their education and they don't do protests and they value their education." What amazes me is these people do not even try to see how it is in other countries, how students are protesting and for what they are protesting. The same problems exist in other countries even in western countries and in countries where students have to pay for the education. Here are some of the videos from YouTube of those protests. 2010 London - "Tens of thousands of students marched through London on Wednesday against plans to triple university tuition fees, and violence erupted as a minority battled police and trashed a building containing the headquar