critically discuss two possible negative implications that free higher education may have for prospective students​

Two possible negative implications that free higher education could have on prospective students would be the following:

-A greater student competition, where by virtue of the right to equal and unrestricted access to education, these prospective students would see their possibilities for academic development liquefied, by competing with an unlimited number of peers both in access to vacancies and in the internal possibilities of University.

-On the other hand, free education, by guaranteeing unrestricted access without academic limits, would lower the level of universities, limiting the academic development of more qualified students.

you did not attach the discourse, but i assume it to be the discourse on the origin and basis of inequality among men (the original titile in french is: "discours sur l'origine et les fondements de l'inégalité parmi les hommes"), also know as "second discourse". in this discourse, jean-jacques rousseau emphasizes that private property is the basis of all inequalities.

therefore, what enabled the old regime to maintain as long as it did was private property.