Instead of worrying about the pay off the students should be concerned with developing all they can intellectually. The author then expresses their feelings towards multi-year contracts. They tell how tenure plans which would be more beneficial. They believe that professors have no motive to improve their skills when rewarded with tenure plans, for themselves or their students. Another thing mentioned in the article that people who come to teach in a college that are not actually considered teachers.
This book contains a strong sense of morality and the characters are well rounded characters that aren’t easy to understand. The harder they are, the more we can learn about the true nature of life (Kelly 166). Grant Wiggins is a difficult character to understand because he couldn’t decide what he wanted to do. You didn’t find out what he truly felt until the end of the book. He was locked into almost the same situation Jefferson was in.
Kartic 1 Jehrame Kartic John Reimringer EngC1101-94 Feb 15, 2013 The Right Decision "Even for Cashiers, College Pays Off", published in 2011 in the New York Times, David Leonhardt, Pulitzer Prize winner for Commentary, argues against the case that college is not for the masses. Aside from his passionate belief that the need for college is crucial, he explains the misleading claims about the prices of tuition and follows with showing that the benefits of a degree are substantial even when a degree is not essential within that field because, aside from all else, colleges teach general skills. As he examines the anti-college argument bit by bit, Leonhardt rapidly lays out all the facts and supports them with astonishing statistics. "Three decades ago, full-time workers with a bachelor's degree made 40 percent more than those with only a high school diploma. Last year, the gap reached 83
Meade 1 Shan Meade Professor Tarkan-Blanco ENC 1102 5 July 2011 Reading Response # 1 In his essay “College Pressures” William Zinsser shares his advice for students who bring their problems to him and his wishes for them. As the Master of students at Yale Zinsser wants his students to keep in mind “…that the road ahead is a long one and that it will have more unexpected turns than they think” (463). The essence of Zinsser’s argument is that the journey through college in preparation for a career might not play out as the student initially planned. He advises them to not draw a hard-line in the sand when mapping out their future. Change of college majors, career fields, life expectations are not to be fear but expected and welcomed.1 Zinsser has many wishes for his students, wishes that they find “…some release from the clammy grip of the future”
He starts by saying that that the students at Harvard university have to learn subjects that are not so important as subjects like Roman, Greek and Roman History or learning about novels poetry. Also the students have to study a language for only a year and that makes it impossible for the student to learn at least the basics of the language. He claims that the habits that you will get from the university have great significance in the long run for the students life. The liberal education lets students learn about their history and other nations history, also it can benefit not only students but help the whole society by participating in democracy and make them capable of distinguishing the public and the private interest. The one of the main problem about liberal arts core is that teachers distinguish some books from others by telling the students that some are better from the others, and don’t teach anything outside their experience.
5 February 2011 The Power of Academic Conversations In Dr. Gibson break down Plato’s quote could at first listen by the average listener is inappropriate to describe the essence of college learning because it is unclear to indicate that it represents the essence of a college and a university education as I just read this quote. I don’t even know what she tries to say. In the quote, I just know that it is about conversation, but I don’t even know the following words what they represents if I do not keep read the follow paragraph. I am agree with Dr. Gibson says that it is very importance to have conversation at the college. As a college student, it would be so different from a high school student.
More importantly, Carr never seems to answer his own question, Is Google Making Us Stupid? Because of Carr’s indecisiveness and lengthy paragraphs that don’t seem to relate to his end argument, his writing seems to leave more questions than answers. Carr spent much of the essay speaking just on the history of technology alone; from typewriters to the printing press. However, he never seems to connect them to his back to his original question. He seems to be taking us on this technological journey, only to then point out that we should be “skeptical of his skepticism” (Carr 100).
He mostly covers events in local colleges like sports and lifestyles. What is surprising to me is that I found this article on the BHS library research database and I still do not feel that it has enough evidence to support my project. Although he may have good information for his article, he does not have the credentials to take note on the subject himself. 3. "The Next Computer Revolution."
The research paper and its effectiveness at measuring a student's performance has become a debate within the educational community. Critics of the form say that in our age of technology the internet has made sources too readily available and therefore the essay type is obsolete. Yet, there are professors that would disagree and state they are encouraging students to think unconventionally. With good evidence on both sides of the argument it is hard to decide if this is an effective means of evaluation. There are more effective ways of assessing knowledge such as other types of essays and oral presentations.
Scott Jaschik’s “A Stand Against Wikipedia” quotes Don Wyatt, the chair of the history department at Middlebury College in Vermont, who contends, “Even though Wikipedia may have some value, particularly from the value of leading students to citable sources, it is not itself an appropriate source for citation”. Many faculty members feel similarly, arguing that students need to be taught to go for quality information, not just convenience. Wikipedia official, Sandra Ordonez, agrees in part, saying: “Wikipedia is the ideal place to start your research and get a global picture of the topic. However, it is not an authoritative source. In fact, we recommend that students check the facts they find in Wikipedia against other sources.