It is true that funding children's schooling is not an easy task for a number of reasons. First, doing so will add burdens on the state budget as it would need several years of continuous funding before a child gets to another level of study. More importantly, in populous countries, the number of children getting into the school age only keeps rising and adds pressures on government's budgets. Second, corruption can be a concern in countries where transparency barely exists. For example, in Vietnam, if the government is to subsidise children's education, chances are that corrupt local authorities will manipulate numbers to steal tax-payers' money. Despite above considerations, I am convinced that supporting families in paying for their children' education offers more good than bad. First, this will promote the education-for-all agenda and improve equality among school children. To explain, since many families cannot afford to pay for their children's schooling, their child...