Summary of “Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission?” In the article, “Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission?” by, Andrew Hacker and Claudia Drefius there are many suggestions on how to reform colleges to make the price of admission worth it to students attending. One idea stated in the article was engaging all students; “professors must make an effort to reach their students” (180). The authors are suggesting that instead of just teaching day to day curriculum they should pay attention to how all the students are performing. Another point stated was that colleges are not pushing their students minds. Instead of worrying about the pay off the students should be concerned with developing all they can intellectually.
Peter Berkowitz, a professor of Stanford University in “Our Compassless Colleges” argues about liberal education in American universities. He proceeds by saying that liberal education in Universities is not structured correctly and that could lead the students to have problems in the long run. Furthermore Berkowitz stated that liberal education in universities provide only superficial-knowledge and not true education. As he sets many questions about who is truly an educated person and to support his ideas about the wrong guidance that universities give to the students, he gives as a major example one of the best universities worldwide, the Harvard University. Berkowitz claimed that although Harvard is a very good university in terms of certificate
Rodrigo Cubedo WRT 101 December 4th, 2012 College: Is It Really Necessary? Go to college, get a degree, and find a well paying job. Everybody should be doing this, right? According to Charles Murray apparently not. Murray presented his book “Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality.” (2008) Where he talks about his point of view on higher education; he doesn’t believe it is something everybody should be doing, since not everybody is prepared to attend college and struggle with all that is involved in the process of getting a B.A.
“ (Moore 141). While Moore focuses more on the advertising established into school and companies promoting themselves using schools, Gatto speaks more one the effect that this way of schooling creates the adults in the world. Also he explains how marketing on the school systems is keeping the adults nowadays very “childish” or young in the mind. (Gatto 149) According to Gatto if you strip children of all of their independence, and only develop their trivial emotions, they would never truly grow up. (Gatto 154).
Hunter Sallee ENGL 1010-21 10 September 2013 Writers Notebook 4 Writers Notebook Four Is there one positive essay about our working industry anywhere? Now everything I have ever been told is being completely blown out of the water. I was always under the impression that the better your education the better paying your job will be. Now I’m being told that it’s the people who have higher educations that should be worried because its those jobs that are now being computerized. So when Obama said that the way to work on the job crisis is to invest in education that was wrong.
They are both dedicated to lowering your taxes, social reforms, and restoring strong families to raise our next generation of outstanding citizens. The next step would be education. We all know that education is one of the major factors into becoming successful in our country. But I say to you today that the educational system is failing us. Under the direction of President Obama, his solutions such as regulating curriculums and student loans on a federal level is what caused this mess today.
The opening quote from Stossel’s book for the segment states that man’s natural instinct is to blame the government and ask for it to do something, often making the problem worse. He attributes putting this responsibility on the government to our upbringing. We are raised to follow orders from our parents, our ancestral clan leaders, our teachers, and now, from Washington. When we hit a bump in the road, we are programmed to run to the government and ask them to act, but Stossel
Many novels challenges society’s ways, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley is one of these novels. The novel is about how the government, the World State, develops humans to believe in its model, “Community, Identity, Stability” (Huxley 1). In order to do this, the World State strips everybody of emotions, desires, and opinions. The novel is a satire of what society could become if technology became too great. Brave New World should be studied in school because it is a satire that challenges technology, human emotions, and society as a whole.
If there are people not pursuing an education then how will they gain leadership and set an example for everyone else to do the same in their social class. Another thing that is essential is that fist we need to help ourselves rather than looking for help. The people in poverty need to strive for college education and leadership individually. Having leaders is a necessity to balance out and fix the negatives of income stratification and educational stratification for the better future of this country. Herbert supports this thought stating “I don’t think Mr. Vander Ark was engaging in hyperbole.
Chafe, Alice Mary Baldwin Professor of History and former Dean of the Faculty at Duke University, admits that he has built his impressive scholarly career by neglecting these dramas to shape what is now the accepted historical conventional wisdom. In books such as "Civilities and Civil Rights" and "The American Woman," he writes, "I have focused on the way social movements, not individuals, have transformed our recent past." Now, Chafe wishes to right the balance, beginning with what he calls "an old-fashioned conviction -- that individual leaders make a difference in a society." The result is insightful and significant, showing how the personal and the psychological shape the political and historical. In eight well-paced, well-written chapters, Chafe sketches portraits of 10 influential modern Americans: Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, Martin Luther King Jr., John Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan and the Clintons, Hillary and Bill.