Murray and Ungar Synthesis In the many recent debates about how to approach higher education, one issue that has constantly appears is the question of students benefiting from a liberal arts based education. Some argue that a liberal arts education is helpful in teaching students the basic life skills, others claim that a more specific field of study is necessary in order to b successful in life. In Ungar’s essay “the New Liberal Arts”, he claims that with a liberal arts education, students can benefit tremendously when they receive their jobs. In Murray’s essay “Are Too Many People Going to College”, he proclaims that a liberal arts degree is not highly recommended because the more difficult careers want students to take classes that are more specific to a job. Sanford J. Ungar and Charles Murray both conduct and display their own opinion towards the facts they learned through their own strenuous research.
Maybe not in inspiring the President for the program he is going to run, since SDS was way more radical on the left wing than Johnson. But the SDS certainly had some good ideas concerning the end of the Vietnam War and the fought for civil rights. Furthermore, they helped built student control in the universities and they inspired a lot of students to help and make a change in America.
TRANG NGUYEN INRW 0302 AMY AXTELL Why people move to the United States ‘Wondering why do many people want to live in the United States?’ It is a land of opportunities that is better than a lot of countries in the world. Therefore, people come to the United States in search of better career opportunities, a high quality in education, and a better life and freedom. The first reason, people come to the United States is for better career opportunities that they have tried in their country and it did not work as expected. Actually, the United States is the leading country for many fields and variety of jobs available as opposed to other countries where it was impossible to find any job. For example, computer technology, medical technology…
"It's clear who made the right decision. The educated American masses helped create the American century"(646). Referring to the century old decision the United States made to make high school almost universal, opposing Europe claiming that it was a waste. Leonhardt emphasizes the level of achievement those can reach with a college degree. And above all else, money for instance, it seems to make them healthier and happier.
Many became work oriented, getting married later on. The American viewpoint is closely tied to this concept, Americans have also pushed marriage back, in order to complete an advanced education, and climb the corporate ladder, many feel that marriage would hold them back from those accomplishments. Another change from the Renaissance, and arguably the most notable change, was humanism. This was not the form of humanism that many today are familiar with, but it was an educational stance based on greek and Roman literature. The new form of learning inspired many philosophers such as Isaac Newton and artist like Leonardo da
This helped them compete with the high level of competition to find jobs because they were now able to attend college for free and receive their degrees. * 1950 Milton Friedmon. Created the theory that competition is key to achieving the best school. * This Changed Schools because it forced them to compete with each other to come up with the best school * 1954 Brown v. board of Education. Handed down on May 17, 1954, the Warren Court's unanimous (9–0) decision stated that "separate educational facilities are inherently unequal."
Alcohol drinking ages are largely debated in American society. Many presidents of colleges have called attention to the idea of lowering the drinking age in American society from 21 to 18. A drinking age of 18 would help college presidents to watch for the needs of their students and to better attend to these needs. A younger legalized drinking age could result in a variety of repercussions, both positive and negative. A drinking age of 18 would be beneficial to American society and would be more congruent to other existing laws in the United States.
Summary of “Universities, governments and industry: Can the essential nature of universities survive the drive to commercialize?” by Simon N. Young Throughout the entry “Universities, governments and industry: Can the essential nature of universities survive the drive to commercialize?’’, the author Simon N. Young, speaks of how since the mid nineteen hundreds, university research has had much change. He speaks of positive changes such as more people attending universities to expand their knowledge, and then goes on to speak of negative changes such as industry and governments getting themselves involved within research. Having these governments and industries becoming involved in the research creates an atmosphere for universities to become more commercialized, therefore defocusing their research on the more needed, or
In fact, Lehner observes, groups in which a sense of false consensus prevails have a lower quality of efficiency than in groups where criticism of ideas is encouraged. The bottomline is that we need to have an intellectual balance in society. Universities should take the lead in promoting this trend. Having traditionally been known as centers of knowledge and laboratories of new ideas, It is time universities took the rediscovered the spirit of debate. Armed with vast resources of information, and brimming with some of the most brilliant minds in the world, universities certainly have ample potential to be at the forefront of heralding this change in society.
Why is a college degree so important? It is important because of the opportunities it provides. Whitney M. Young, an American civil rights leader, once proclaimed, “It is better to be prepared for an opportunity and not have one than to have an opportunity and not be prepared.” Possessing a college degree means being prepared for possible career opportunities in the future. Although the cost is high, he reward may be even higher. As investing in a 401k helps one prepare for the financial future, attaining a college degree is an investment in one’s future career