如果德國的教育是免費(fèi)的，那么為什么不是每個(gè)人都去那里學(xué)習(xí)呢?

Lucas Karl Hahn
If education in Germany is free and good, then why doesn't everybody go there to study ?
I assume you are an American (because university there is very, very expensive yet many graduates work low-paying jobs).
Few Americans would feel comfortable flying alone 4,000 miles across the Atlantic into another country where they don't speak the language, even if the language of instruction is in English as it is in some programs. Many programs will require some German language proficiency, and few students have had 4 years of German in high school (which is rare now, as some schools are scrapping German classes). Even if one was fortunate to get into a program where the instruction was exclusively in English, life would be awkward having to ask every shopkeeper or bus driver they come across "Do you speak English?"

如果德國的教育既免費(fèi)又優(yōu)質(zhì)，為什么不是每個(gè)人都去那里學(xué)習(xí)呢？
我假設(shè)你可能是美國人（因?yàn)槊绹拇髮W(xué)費(fèi)用非常高昂，但許多畢業(yè)生卻只能找到低薪工作）。
很少有美國人愿意獨(dú)自飛行4000英里跨越大西洋，前往一個(gè)他們不會(huì)說當(dāng)?shù)卣Z言的國家，即使教學(xué)語言是英語，就像一些課程中那樣。還是有許多課程會(huì)要求一定的德語水平，但很少有學(xué)生在高中學(xué)習(xí)過四年德語（這在現(xiàn)在已經(jīng)很少見，因?yàn)橐恍W(xué)校正在取消德語課程）。即使有人有幸進(jìn)入一個(gè)完全用英語授課的課程，生活中也會(huì)遇到尷尬，不得不向他們遇到的每一個(gè)店主或公交車司機(jī)詢問：“你會(huì)說英語嗎？”

I doubt the parents of many 18-year-olds in the US would be ok with this, even when the student showed them the potential cost savings on tuition. Many are sad enough when their son or daughter goes to university a 3-hour drive upstate or a few states away, let alone 4,000 miles away across the Atlantic.
Most people tend to prefer to live in the country if not state and town where they were born. Moving to a new country is a huge undertaking, even knowing that Germany is closer to America culturally than Sri Lanka or Egypt or Korea. A lot of things are different; everything from shopping to dining to working. It isn't for the faint of heart.

我懷疑美國很多18歲孩子的父母是否會(huì)接受這種做法——即使學(xué)生向他們告知是可能節(jié)省學(xué)費(fèi)的。許多父母看到他們的孩子去上大學(xué)——可能是得開車三小時(shí)到達(dá)的州內(nèi)其他地方，或者幾個(gè)州之外的地方，就已經(jīng)很難過了，更不用說橫跨大西洋去到4000英里之外了。
大多數(shù)人傾向于在他們出生的國家生活——如果不是出生的州和城鎮(zhèn)的話。搬到一個(gè)新國家是一項(xiàng)巨大的挑戰(zhàn)——即使知道德國在文化上比斯里蘭卡、埃及或韓國更接近美國。畢竟從購物到餐飲到工作，很多事情都是不同的。這并不適合膽小的人。

How many extremely courageous, German-speaking students with parents willing to let them go study in Germany for three or for years graduate from American high schools every year? My guess is not very many.
To summarize
Language Barrier
Distance
Different Culture and Lifestyle

Ho你 1wever, I strongly recommend studying or visiting or working in Germany to those who are interested.
每年有多少非常勇敢、會(huì)說德語的學(xué)生，他們的父母愿意讓他們?nèi)サ聡鴮W(xué)習(xí)三到四年，從美國高中畢業(yè)？我猜不會(huì)有很多。
總結(jié)一下：
語言障礙
距離問題
不同的文化和生活方式
然而，我強(qiáng)烈推薦那些感興趣的人去德國學(xué)習(xí)、訪問或工作。

Johan Masreliez
If German universities are like Swedish they will only give admission to students who pass stringent tests. If they don’t pass they cannot go to any state financed university. This may seem harsh but since the education is free it makes sense.

如果德國的大學(xué)錄取標(biāo)準(zhǔn)和瑞典一樣嚴(yán)格，那么只有通過嚴(yán)格測試的學(xué)生才能獲得入學(xué)資格。如果他們未能通過，就不能進(jìn)入任何由國家資助的大學(xué)。這可能看起來有些苛刻，但考慮到教育是免費(fèi)的，這樣的做法是有道理的。

Mihai D
Every form of education comes at a cost, even if it is free of charge as far as government is concerned. Choosing wisely the profession you are going to supposedly spend the next about 40 years being immersed in, is quite challenging when you are a teenager. In Germany or in the USA, studying for something you are not cut for, is the same. I have met soooooo many idiots with academic qualifications that I have lost some degree of faith with regard to how a university degree can help an individual fulfill her/his potential. I am 55, I have a degree in mechanical engineering and an MBA, both of which I worked my ass off for. 30 years after I graduated and I still use under 5–10 % of the knowledge I gained throughout my academic studies. Many people will disagree with me, but it is not what the school gives you, but what you make of it after the school has given it to you. I happen to have to deal with inventions; I hold a few patents and because of that I have had the “opportunity” to meet mostly people/professionals who would rather apply academic dogmas when faced with challenging professional situations rather than use their own judgement.

任何形式的教育都是有成本的，即使政府不收費(fèi)。對(duì)于一個(gè)青少年來說，明智地選擇一個(gè)你可能會(huì)投入大約40年時(shí)間的職業(yè)，選擇大學(xué)也是一項(xiàng)相當(dāng)具有挑戰(zhàn)性的任務(wù)。無論是在德國還是美國，學(xué)習(xí)你不適合的東西都是一樣的。我遇到過太多擁有學(xué)術(shù)資格但實(shí)際上并不怎么樣的人，這讓我對(duì)大學(xué)學(xué)位如何幫助個(gè)人發(fā)揮潛力失去了一些信心。我今年55歲，我有機(jī)械工程學(xué)位和MBA學(xué)位，這兩個(gè)學(xué)位都是我非常努力獲得的。畢業(yè)30年后，我仍然只使用了我在學(xué)術(shù)學(xué)習(xí)中獲得的知識(shí)的5-10%。很多人可能不同意我的看法，但我認(rèn)為，重要的不是學(xué)校給了你什么，而是你在離開學(xué)校后如何利用它。我恰好從事發(fā)明工作；我擁有幾項(xiàng)專利，因此我有機(jī)會(huì)遇到很多在面對(duì)專業(yè)挑戰(zhàn)時(shí)寧愿應(yīng)用學(xué)術(shù)教條，而不是運(yùn)用自己判斷的人。

School is dogmatic by definition, every school, be it German or American. I have found that , most often than not, school gets in the way of free (technical) thinking. I do not blame the system; I just want to point out that school teaches people how to become average. The best ‘’A’’ student is the best average future professional. Who wants more than that, they need to really love what it is that they are studying and study a lot outside the curricula. For that, you do not necessarily need to go to a German or American university. You just need to make sure you like what you are doing and 80% of your REAL work will be outside of your university curricula. Regardless of which university you go to, find your passion first and then you will do great. Do not find your passion and no amount of Ivy League Master’s Degrees /PhD will ever save you from 40 years of gradually getting to hate your professional life.

無論是德國的還是美國的，學(xué)校本質(zhì)上是教條的。我發(fā)現(xiàn)，學(xué)校往往阻礙了自由思考。我不責(zé)怪這個(gè)體系；我只是想指出，學(xué)校教會(huì)人們?nèi)绾巫兊闷接?。最?yōu)秀的“A”類學(xué)生往往是未來平庸專業(yè)里面的最優(yōu)秀人士而已。如果你想要更多，你需要真正熱愛你正在學(xué)習(xí)的東西，并在課程之外進(jìn)行大量學(xué)習(xí)。為此，你不一定需要去德國或美國的大學(xué)。你只需要確保你喜歡你所做的事情，你80%的真正工作將在你的大學(xué)課程之外。無論你去哪所大學(xué)，首先找到你的熱情，然后你就會(huì)做得很好。如果你沒有找到你的熱情，那么即使是擁有常春藤聯(lián)盟的碩士或博士學(xué)位，也無法阻止你在未來40年里逐漸開始厭惡你的職業(yè)生涯。

It is YOU who makes the difference to yourself, not THEM. School is nothing more than a mental gym; you go there to train your mind in a way the “trainers” tell you to. You will have to do that outside of school too. I work in mechatronics and in my line of work physics are of utmost importance. I happen to have watched on Youtube some 20–30 hours of physics classes at MIT , which is THE PLACE for whoever dreams of becoming an engineer (and not only), taught by a renowed professor. He was doing a great job trying to make students get a sense of experimental physics; yet, I was not impressed, because the act of teaching is so much intertwined with the teacher’s own personality, so that you cannot like the matter at hand and not like the teacher, or the other way round.
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是你自己讓你與眾不同，而不是它們。學(xué)校只不過是一個(gè)精神健身房；你去那里按照“教練”告訴你的方式訓(xùn)練你的思維，而你在學(xué)校之外也必定這樣做。我從事機(jī)電一體化領(lǐng)域的工作，物理學(xué)在這個(gè)領(lǐng)域中極為重要。我曾在YouTube上觀看了大約20到30小時(shí)的麻省理工學(xué)院（MIT）的物理課程，這里是任何有志成為工程師的人夢寐以求的地方，課程由一位享有盛譽(yù)的教授講授。他非常努力地嘗試讓學(xué)生理解實(shí)驗(yàn)物理學(xué)；然而，我并沒有被打動(dòng)，因?yàn)榻虒W(xué)的過程與教師的個(gè)性如此緊密地交織在一起，以至于你不可能只喜歡所學(xué)的內(nèi)容而不欣賞教授本人，或者反過來。

Somehow, the “message” gets hand in hand with the “messanger” . In school, the filter between a student and his future knowledge about a subject is the teacher. If the teacher is great, you will like what he teaches, regardless of wheter you are good at it or not. If the teacher is not right, you will not like the subject he teaches, even if you would likely be cut for it. IT IS AS SUBJECTIVE AS THIS ! Basically, most of your future decisions lie in the personality of 50–100 or whatever number of school’s staff you have to deal with during your school !

不知何故，“信息”與“傳遞者”總是形影不離。在學(xué)校中，老師是學(xué)生與其未來學(xué)科知識(shí)之間的媒介。如果老師很優(yōu)秀，你就會(huì)喜歡他所教授的課程，不論你是否擅長這一科目。如果老師不合適，即使你可能很適合它，你也不會(huì)喜歡他教的科目。就是這么簡單主觀！
基本上，你未來的許多決定都取決于你在學(xué)校期間所接觸的那50到100位，或者任何數(shù)量的學(xué)校教職工的個(gè)性。

If I were 20 again and I would have to choose where to go, I wouldn’t go anywhere to study unless I’ve found what it is that I would love to do for the next 30–40 years. It is this passion that will help you go through bad times, bad teachers, or any other crap during your studies, or later in life, through bad bosses or bad co-workers . I would work first in as many companies as possible until I have found out what I could be very good at. Only then would I go to the university, not before. If that would take 5 years to find out, so be it ! But not before.

如果我能回到20歲，并且需要決定去哪里學(xué)習(xí)，除非我找到了自己未來30到40年真正熱愛的事業(yè)，否則我不會(huì)選擇去任何地方學(xué)習(xí)。正是這份熱情，會(huì)在你學(xué)習(xí)過程中遇到糟糕時(shí)期、不理想的老師，或者在未來的生活中遇到糟糕的老板或同事時(shí)，幫助你度過難關(guān)。我會(huì)先盡可能多的公司工作，直到我發(fā)現(xiàn)我可能非常擅長的事情。只有那時(shí)我才會(huì)去大學(xué)，如果這需要5年時(shí)間，那也沒關(guān)系！但在那之前不會(huì)做出決定。

School can be an excellent upward pushing force in life if the right person learns the right stuff, or it can be a massive waste of time if the person learns what is not cut for. It’s not the school, it’s not the knowledge, it is the person that acts upon either of them. That means the student and the teacher. Everything else, Germany or USA or UK or India, is just context. Yes It matters, but No, it is not the heart of the matter. The only two exceptions that I know of are the extremes, which is either Ivy leaque schools (where the right person who learns the stuff he/his is cut for, will really thrive) or really -really bad schools. The rest of them are just various shades of grey that you can work on/with.

如果一個(gè)人學(xué)習(xí)了適合自己的知識(shí)，學(xué)?？梢猿蔀樯钪袕?qiáng)大的向上推動(dòng)力；但如果學(xué)習(xí)的內(nèi)容不適合這個(gè)人，那么學(xué)校教育可能就會(huì)變成巨大的時(shí)間浪費(fèi)。關(guān)鍵不在于學(xué)校，也不在于所學(xué)的知識(shí)，而在于個(gè)人如何應(yīng)用這些知識(shí)。這涉及到學(xué)生和老師兩者。其他的，無論是德國、美國、英國還是印度，都僅僅是背景。這些背景確實(shí)重要，但它們并不是問題的關(guān)鍵所在。我所知道的兩個(gè)例外是極端情況：要么是頂尖的常春藤盟校（對(duì)于那些學(xué)習(xí)到真正適合自己的學(xué)科的人來說，他們能夠真正茁壯成長），要么是非常糟糕的學(xué)校。其他的學(xué)校則介于兩者之間，有著不同程度的優(yōu)劣，你可以在這些學(xué)校中努力并利用它們提供的資源。

Andreas Schmidt Mumm
You did not really study in Germany, did you? You would have found it quite different to the US. A lot less schooling and a lot more responsibility to the student. One of my professors ( Physical Chemistry) said “I don’t expect you to remember all of this, I want you to know what else there is.”

你并沒有真正在德國學(xué)習(xí)過，對(duì)吧？你會(huì)發(fā)現(xiàn)它與美國非常不同。學(xué)校教育少得多，學(xué)生的責(zé)任多得多。我的一位教授（物理化學(xué)）說：“我不指望你記住所有這些，我希望你要知道還有什么（是要學(xué)習(xí)的）?！?/b>