How Expensive Our Education is

This afternoon the house of representative stipulate a new regulation on higher education. As always there are some controversies...
Many people agrees that education is an investment.
Many people also agrees that the investment should or would create some returns.
So if we can have a common understanding on the way of an investment that we would be agree that education should be an expensive investment. If we want a high return then we should invest more.
Many times we see there are some contradiction on investment for education. People tend to invest less in education but once they get the education they want to have the highest return they could. Isn't it contradiction?
Yes education is the right for the people, and I agree that government should provide education that affordable for the people. I cannot deny that for some people the education are a luxurious thing. However we should also realize that education is a high cost institution, there are so many investment the government should provide to run a public educational institution. It is a very high cost business. Yet some people, with a very high income, can afford whatever the cost of the education.
Let's take an example of one public university in my region. The tuition is only two hundred thousand per month.
Hello everyone...there are students who pays their telephone bills for more than five hundreds thousand per months, there are people who spend one million only for their laundry, there are people around the city where I live who spend no less than one million only for maintaining their hair.
So is it education expensive?
Yes I also realize there are people who cannot afford to pay for buying food let alone the two hundred thousand rupiah for tuition only.
But this doesn't mean that our education should be less than the cost of maintaining someone's hair.
The best way is to have some formula that enable the poor to be able to take the benefit from the education, but do not undervalue the education.
My experience when I live in a developed country, they have a formula that enables the poor and lower income people to get the education yet the education is very expensive.
Finally we should realize that the investment we make worth the return we get. Let's change our way of thinking from old economic way of thinking: Dengan Modal sekecil-kecilnya, Dapatkan Untung sebesar-besarnya (the least capital the most benefit), menjadi Untuk Mendapatkan Untung besar kita harus berinvestasi yang besar pula.
Wondering when can we have a world class of education...
World class of universities
World class of students
World class of thought