education is a topic near and dear to my heart. generally speaking, an educated individual is an asset to the society [s]he lives in. as such, it is in the best interests of the society to encourage and enable those people interested in and capable of furthering their education to do so. in this sense, the danish system is admirable.
however, throwing dollars at a problem wont necessarily achieve the desired goal.
for example, here in australia, for the first time our federal education budget is providing more funding to private schools than colleges and universities. private schools attract the best teachers with high salaries and low teacher:student ratios, and pay for it through exorbitant tuition fees. this attracts AB economic status families (ie white, rich).
by giving them further aid to create a further gap in education quality, while maintining tuition barriers that keep everyone else from having access to that education does not benefit society as a whole - only those white enough and rich enough to get in.
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