Because a university education is increasingly seen as the threshold to a decently paid job, young people may choose among different providers of it but are not free to rule it out altogether.

因为大学教育越来越被看做是获得一个不错收入工作的最低标准，年轻人虽可以在不同的学校间作选择，但却没有不作选择的自由。

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The American Association of University Professors agrees: ". . . critical thinking . . . is the hallmark of American education—an education designed to create thinking citizens for a free society."

美国大学教授协会也发出同样声音：“批判性思维...是美国教育的标志 - 它能为自由社会输出有思考能力的公民。”

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Out of 120000 children willing to take entrance exams only 40000 have a right to get free education. All the rest will pass their exams next year or enter a private university.

在12万名志愿参加大学入学考试的孩子中，仅有4万名能上免费的大学，其他的要在来年通过考试才能上私立大学。

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The issue is an emotive one for Labour, as several of the party's leading lights benefited from free university education.

BBC: Student protest

They are entitled to subsidies, state jobs, land grants, and free university education, the latter part of an effort to reinvest gas wealth in human capital, not just in shiny buildings.

BBC: Qatar's delicate balancing act

More damaging is the fact that the devolved Scots now enjoy important perks, such as some paid-for medicines and (soon) free university education, that the English don't preferential treatment that violates a deep if illogical English expectation that government should treat everyone everywhere the same.

ECONOMIST: Bagehot