College Education: the Dream, the Promise, and the Reality

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Fernando Rodriguez Professor Adrian Vivian English 1 14 June 2012 College Education: the Dream, the Promise, and the Reality There are millions of students attending college each year. People become students at all ages for all different sorts of reasons. One of the biggest reasons is to secure a future for themselves and be able to provide for a family. It has turned very difficult to get a good job without some sort of college degree to back up the skills the individual has to perform such job. So why do people continue to go for the higher education? Students pay thousands of dollars and end up in debt that lasts a lifetime for a future that is not guaranteed. The school system has failed at guiding students though a successful career path and instead it created an empire that profits a large from students by delivering a dream that attracts all students, a promise they can’t guarantee, and a reality that makes people angry. As a child people are influenced by their parents with dreams of becoming doctors, lawyers, engineers, and many other types of professionals. This type of encouragement has become a tradition that started over forty years ago. In 1972, Robert Worthington explained in his paper The Need for Career Education how the school system back then left students with little preparation for college and no preparation for work, making it very difficult for them to find an occupation (4). Certainly the school system of today is very improved over the one in 1972 but, the different technical and vocational programs of today are not available in all schools neither to all students. This leaves the majority of students with no opportunity to get trained for a career early in school. So students set out on the college careers paths in hopes to reach their goals. Surely everyone goes to college with the goal of reaching the promise that they

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