Free in the sense that the costs were borne by the government and not by the student. I'm totally ok with that. However, now that countries are shifting higher

Free in the sense that the costs were borne by the government and not by the student. I'm totally ok with that. However, now that countries are shifting higher education costs off of their books and people are finding out that universities are, in fact, very expensive to run, it's not fair to blame the university.