So true!
You are not alone bhai.
Many people with gentle souls and kind hearts felt that private education would be bad, as it will put the poor students out of colleges and universities.
However what we should do is to divide up the total funds given to a government college / uni with the number of students (lets say 3 lakh Rs per year per student).
Then we can give 3 lakh rs / year as a scholarship to every student who gets on to merit,
and then maintains good grades and good behavior.
Anyone who slacks off, or gets in trouble with police (like getting caught carrying an AK-47) should lose 3 lakh for that year.
So this way there is some accountability on part of the student and he/she knows that
Education is not FIREEE,
It may work in future, but similar bans have not worked even when enacted by the big name military rulers.
The reason is that students themselves have to change.
And they will only change when they know that they are paying from their pocket or they are getting a merit scholarship.
If they no longer are a merit student, then the scholarship will go away and some other deserving student will get the money.
Hope this explains why it is important to privatize the unis and colleges while replaced government funding for the unis to scholarships for the students.
How harsh it may sound but you have nailed it right, its not only govt’s responsibility, students have to change, if they know they’ll loose something and/or they are paying from their pockets to study then yes there are more chances of change in the approach and behaviour..