Sisters of the Presentation of Mary

These past few weeks, the news have been filled with the student demonstrations in Quebec. This has led me to ponder on the difference between a right and a privilege. Personally, I don't think that a university education is a right. I may be wrong, but I am quite convinced that one can have a fulfilling, profitable career in many other fields but the professional ones that university offer. Education is a right, just like having a shelter to protect you, or food to sustain you is a right; but in my humble opinion, university education is a little like living in a $750,000 home or having steak and lobster every day! It is a privilege... and privileges come with responsibilities. That is what I feel the Quebec students who are protesting the hike in tuition do not seem to understand. Am I wrong? Should university education, or, for that matter, any post-secondary education be free? If that were the case, who would pay for this education? What do you think?