Furb, you are talking out of your backside. I can't speak for the rest of the EU, but in the UK you can't even get a tax break on the training costs, let alone get state subsidy. Doctors, lawyers, IT, business, financial experts and all the other high income professions get trained at universities which have state funding, so their course costs are much, much less than ours, and usually paid for by student loans that have special low interest rates and are underwritten by the tax payer, and only to be paid back if earnings exceed a threshold with the unpaid balance written off at tax payers' loss after 30 years.
Please don't interpret this as an attack on those professions - doctors especially, who have to work horrific hours for the first several years of their career. I'm merely pointing out Furb's assertion of pilots being state funded as being utter lies.