This can affect their education as they will not want to stay on in further education, as they can get a job and make money straight away. ), and Present-time orientation (The w/c believe that you should savour every day, as tomorrow may never come. With this frame of mind, they may think education is a waste of time, as it may not benefit you if tomorrow never comes.) These two sociologists’ theories and practices prove that there are major differences in achievement between classes. However, these theories stereotype, and blame the family too much.
The College System The word ‘college’ is often associated with words such as ‘expenses’ and ‘debt’. In the American college system, at least, this seems to be the pattern. Colleges and Universities are getting more and more inaccessible to students due to their increase in tuitions. According to Andrew Delbanco in his book College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, the difference between Colleges and a Universities is that a College “is about transmitting knowledge of and from the past to undergraduate students so they may draw upon it as a living resource in the future” (Delbanco 2). This reflection of the past to learn for the future seems unrealistic when half of Americans cannot pay for such education.
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.
A Refutation of “Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission?” Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus set out on a mission to answer the question of “Are colleges worth the price of admission?” They argue that colleges are taking on too many roles and doing none of them well, losing track of the basic mission to challenge the minds of young people. One of the many problems, they claim, is that students are enrolling in too many vocational majors instead of the liberal arts such as philosophy, literature and the physical sciences. Not only do they title this claim “Make students use their minds”, they proceed to further slight vocational majors by stating: “We’d like to persuade them that supposedly impractical studies are a wiser use of college and ultimately a better investment. The undergraduate years are an interlude that will never come again, a time to liberate the imagination and stretch one’s intellect without worrying about a possible payoff.” (180). This is self-contradictory in itself.
In this case, CCA misrepresented and exaggerated its job placement rate and potential salaries. I believe that CCA executives were trying to keep the college in a competitive position to attract more students as many other private colleges or companies did. This practice violates consumers’ trust. In her article, Liedtka (2011) said that “such a view of competition makes it difficult to envision how one could construct a supporting set of moral principles and value”
NCLB set forth a certain criteria to be met, but allowed the states to determine how they would accomplish it. Therefore, each state handles assessment and accountability differently. This makes it hard to show success or failure of the programs. Supporters and critics alike can cite research that supports their opinion. My opinion of NCLB is it is flawed, developmentally inappropriate, ill funded, ←and→ leaving more students, teachers, ←and→ schools behind than ever before because The tests have turned into the objective of classroom instruction rather than the measure of teaching ←and→ learning.
If the younger generation begins to perceive the higher education system (and accompanying loans) as being inherently unjust and/or illegitimate, what implications does this have for the labor sphere? I've previously used the example of a college graduate working at Starbucks only to find himself or herself effectively relegated back to Starbucks after receiving a graduate degree. If people begin to perceive higher education as being illegitimate or akin to a sort of nationwide fraudulent scheme, at some point the cost of academic tuition and the number of students attending higher educational institutions will contract and collapse. Of course, a pyramid scheme is a non-sustainable business model. In this light, one might also note that our current system of higher education is unsustainable.
Mark Edmundson’s “on the uses of a liberal education” displays how corrupt the current education system is. He raises problems of consumerism in colleges and also indicates that college’s students lack intellectual curiosity. The multiple choices student have today in college have made the college a facile learning environment, resulting in complacent students. He ridicules the fact that students can withdraw from classes with a one month left in semester. In the beginning of the text, Edmundson depicts a classroom he particularly doesn’t enjoy on evaluation day.
On the other hand, it is my opinion that student athletes should not be paid; because, scholarships usually cover a big deal of expenses, it would be unfair to their peers, and most colleges and money could change the way a
Reformation takes when students, faculty and administrators see that what has worked for years isn’t working anymore. Ultimately, the students are the product of a university where they are either changed to make a difference in the world or offer little in return to the community. According to the authors and I agree when they say “college should be imaginative and integrative…where ideas are at work (Palmer, 2010).” It is easy to say what college should be or can be easy but difficult to do – that is why they are calling for reformation. Internalization of thoughts and accomplishments in higher education administration and its performance should be what push for changes in teaching and