College provides us with the knowledge and credibility that employers seek in this demanding world today. However a huge debate has to be brought to attention if going to college and receiving a bachelor’s degree should be a requirement to even get your foot in the door or be considered for a job. An interesting point of view on the bachelor’s degree being a job requirement is in the essay “Should The Obama Generation Drop Out?” by Charles Murray. Murray is a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, has written on social issues and published a book in 2008 regarding real education. I think Murray’s point of views will change a lot of people and the way they see education as a primary resource to qualify to get a good job.
An extensive bit of the issue to understanding which colleges are extraordinary endeavors is the absence of good measures of school quality. The most realistic measure relies on the scholarly accomplishments of the students before they enter the college grounds. Moreover, the school for some is a method for better open doors and potential development. Despite what might be expected, On the contrary, Nemko claims that school should just choose the individuals who appeared to be competent during secondary school (Nemko
Tera January English 101 Professor Howell Assignment 2 – Final Draft 6 July 2013 Summary for Lubrano’s “The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts” In Alfred Lubrano's essay "The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts" he explains the differences and difficulties of what individuals can go through while attending college. When deciding to go to college you are making one major change that an individual from a working class family can make in their life. Lubrano makes a vital point that as children grow and move on from their parents traditions they lose their family support system due to the fact the once the student gets to campus they will run into multiple different types of environments and will also have no time to chit chat due to being over worked by class assignments. Throughout the essay Lubrano explains that by attending college, the child from a working class family defies the lower income stereotype; he/she is excluding the life of their parents and choosing a different life to live. He also examines other areas that would have an effect on the differences between middle class and working class students.
In the article “What’s Wrong With Vocational School” written by Charles Murray, he gives his opinion about the unnecessary of four year college’s program compares to vocational training. I find this article have some very interesting ideas which I both agree and disagree I agree with his statement in the fourth paragraph about how many students attend college because their parents are paying for it and it is what they supposed to do after their finish high school. Many students do not have any real goals or any ideas of what they are going to do for their life, but going to a four year college is an obligation because their parents have spent so much money for them through high school, and now college. Automatically, their job is to do well in school and finish with a four year degree so that they can be prepared for their future without the supporting from their parents. This is a common sense that many of us all know as an adult; yet not all young people understand this fact.
Our country prides itself on encouraging its citizens to better themselves through education. (P) While its priority has been high school graduation, many jobs now require college degrees, making higher education more important than ever. While I understand that every American should be expected to sacrifice during this hard time, just as we were in World War II, I feel that this particular sacrifice would put our country in an even worse state. (S) Our work force will not be prepared to handle nor understand the advancements that we have strived so hard to achieve. College is made to prepare students with the newest information possible, so that we can constantly be improving ourselves and be able continue to compete with the world’s leading nations.
This monograph by Mary C. McComb on how college youth and experts negotiate their class identity as "middle class" during the economic crises of the Great Depression enters this conceptual quagmire, but although she occasionally comes close to tripping a fuse, she emerges with some illuminating pathways. McComb has crafted a tidy research monograph with well chosen cases in order to focus on the formation of a class-based discourse on middle-class identity in a decade when the economic basis of class privilege was undermined by weakened depression-era prospects. Close readings of student newspapers at five colleges and Universities contrast the views of relatively privileged Amherst College men with those of their female peers at Mount Holyoke. She then sets these perspectives against those of less elite collegiate youth at two additional private institutions, but in these cases coeducational schools in urban settings (Washington, DC) with distinctly different racial student bodies-the white George Washington University and the black Howard University. Finally, McComb fills out her research with the case of students from a land grant public university, the University of Michigan, where she was completing the dissertation on which this book was based.
If that happens then you might have to take whatever class could not transfer over at a university for more money. Be sure to find a good advisor to make the chances of a nightmare happening slim to none. Unfortunately you do not get a bachelor’s degree from a community college. Some say community colleges have limited curriculum. (Pros and Cons, 2012) For high school graduates, commuting from home appears to them as a disadvantage.
College vs. High School By Erika Clough Many students, especially those who do not have a family member who has been to college, believe college is pretty much like high school, only bigger. In today’s modern society the two most popular forms of education are a high school education and a college education. More people than ever are striving to better themselves by achieving some form of college education. To be prepared, it helps to know what differences lay ahead. Though academic requirements and student life vary depending on the college you attend, there are basic differences that apply in almost every case.
Is Education Worth The Money Jonathan Cain, president of the Thiel Foundation, says a college degree no longer makes a résumé unique, and kids' time and money are best spent elsewhere (Oliver St. John). Right now, there is a kid finishing Parent Conferences, in a heated discussion with his mother. Asking why he would have to study subjects he would never, ever use in his life? And she will look at him, blank-eyed, let out a sigh, think for a second - and then lie. She will say something along the lines of "To get a god job, you need a degree; and these subjects will help you to get a degree.
The Telegraph newspaper made a study that shows that between 20% and 40% of college students in the United States enter their first year undecided. Choosing a major is arguably the most important decision students will make in college, especially because it can affect their career choices after graduation. For many students it is difficult to choose their major. Thus, the best steps that guarantee you will choose your right major are by following your dreams, and asking a counselor. First you should major in subject areas that interest and feel passionate about it; consequently, it will make you engage fully with the material you are learning and marketable in a competitive workforce.