This article is great because I think many Americans feel college is mandatory for young people to succeed in life but when they hear about kids not expanding their knowledge nor really gaining anything from college it is solely blamed on the students not the institute. But essentially it is both sides fault because if students aren’t willing to put the effort to obtain a college degree they should be failed because it is a reality check when they have to apply themselves in the real world’s network of jobs. College was such a cruise for the kids that when they actually have to do work they are aggrivated and they aren’t use to having to critically think or be held accountable. Therefore it is hard not to just look at a college as a depository for money. College is suppose to prepare you for life and create the work ethic and knowledge in order to be successful in the workplace. Yet today’s college seems to be a social kick for kids, enabling them to party every night and still achieve a B OR B+. I’m sure you could ask several adults if that is similar to what their job envirorment is like and it would be an irate no. So seems college is just a system to pump kids in out as quickly as possible so they can get the next batch and make money. Through personal experience I feel high school prepared me more for the real world then college is teaching me right now. In my history class I literally have not learned one thing this semester entire semester. Luckily not all my classes are like that but it definitely is time for a reformation in the college system. Your degree should be earned not handed to you.
I agree with your point that it is not just the students' fault that they do not gain anything from college. Some of the blame does lay with the institute and its professors not giving the students any challenge in the classroom and making them expand their knowledge. I also agree that college education should have to be earned at that most of the time it is not. There is no real thinking or effort in some of the courses offered in college and kids just take them as an easy A class that they can just breeze through on their way to a degree. But when these kids graduate they will have learned nothing to help them in the real world except how to party all night and still get up for work on time.
ReplyDeleteI agree with your perspective about the current education that the students should not be blamed if they do not receive anything from colleges or universities. In my opinion, colleges and universities suppose to minimize the general education as much as they can because the general education courses seem to be so many and this make students have less interest to school. For example students who choose to study finance or accounting have to study science labs that they already learned when they were high schools or force art students to study physics. Therefore, education suppose to attract students' interests by providing their major and core courses as many as they can in order to grab their attentions and interests.
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