<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(36, 36, 36); font-family: Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px; "><div class="meta share-expanded" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; text-align: center; border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-style: solid; border-bottom-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); position: static; z-index: auto; "><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(112, 109, 90); font: normal normal normal 13px/1.4 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px; "><br></p><p class="date" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(112, 109, 90); font: normal normal normal 13px/1.4 Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Geneva, sans-serif; font-family: 'Times New Roman', serif; text-transform: uppercase; letter-spacing: 1px; ">This is interesting when our students end up having to pay back thousands and thousands of dollars and pay ABSORBENT interest costs for student loans. 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margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(229, 114, 30); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">This is incredible:</a><br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; line-height: 1.4; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top-style: solid; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">All German universities are now free to Americans and all other international students. The last German state to charge tuition at its universities struck down the fees this week.</blockquote>Why are they offering such a generous plan?<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; line-height: 1.4; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top-style: solid; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">In explaining why Germany made this move, Dorothee Stapelfeldt, a Hamburg senator, called tuition fees "unjust" and added that "they discourage young people who do not have a traditional academic family background from taking up study. It is a core task of politics to ensure that young women and men can study with a high quality standard free of charge in Germany."</blockquote>The perks don't end at free tuition:<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; "><blockquote style="margin-top: 1.2em; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 20px; padding-right: 20px; padding-bottom: 20px; padding-left: 20px; line-height: 1.4; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: rgb(246, 243, 236); border-bottom-width: 1px; border-bottom-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-bottom-style: solid; border-top-width: 1px; border-top-color: rgb(226, 226, 225); border-top-style: solid; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">Even before Germany abolished college tuition for all students, the price was a steal. Typically semester fees were around $630. What's more, German students receive many perks including discounts for food, clothing and events, as well as inexpensive or even free transportation.</blockquote>Considering the average student loan debt in the U.S. is <a href="http://money.cnn.com/2013/12/04/pf/college/student-loan-debt/" style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; color: rgb(229, 114, 30); text-decoration: none; font-weight: bold; ">$29,400</a>, a lot of U.S. high school students would do well to start learning German.<br style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; line-height: 1.4; "></div><div><br></div></div></span></body></html>