Learning Against Grades In this society, students are encouraged to pursue a higher education after graduating from high school. Yet, each individual has a different reason for desiring to move on to college. Students attend college either because they want to increase their knowledge, get a decent paying job after college, or they just want to get the “college” experience instead of going on to the working force after high school. As a first-year college student, I pictured college to be a “… place for learning and growth…” (Jerry Faber, 387), but I was slightly wrong. Everyday I stress over earning a good grade in my classes, instead of being driven to learn the material of the course.
The first reason is because a lot of people want a job that will pay very good money. By going to college, you will have the hands-on learning education you need to start your chosen career. This is a huge reason why a lot of careers require you to have at least a two or four year degree. Another reason why college matters is because it helps students boost their confidence level out in the real world. There are countless things that people have to do every single day in life so going college will help give you a better idea of what the definition of life really is.
College Should Be Free For All Students College too many students mean a higher education that leads to a bright future. Of course, there is challenging work that needs to be fulfilled over a period, in order to meet the expectations of living life in a certain way. However, the hard work put into the dream of attending a university has a possibility of not coming true due to the lack of unfortunate families, competition, and lastly government decision-making. A funded education is needed for every upcoming generation. In addition, a modern country needs highly skilled graduates of all kinds.
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.
Community College Many students struggle to choose between attending a community college and a university upon completion of a high school. Now a day’s a large number of high school graduates attend community college for a variety of reasons. In fact students search for the college which is best for their career goal and improves quality of life. Community colleges are the fastest growing institutions for high school graduates. Students choose to got community college because they benefit from the reduced tuition, they have the ability to transfer to a university, and they obtain a training provide for a future career.
Final Draft The Benefits of Higher Education; College vs. Vocational School As high school graduation approaches millions of teenagers around the country are making the hard choice between college, or a trade school. In Katherine Porter’s essay, “The Value of a College Degree” she explains the importance of a college degree. A college degree will guarantee a successful future, improve our economy, and send young adults into the world with excellent critical thinking skills. Adults returning to college will have the benefit of increased self-esteem, the ability to change professions, and future opportunities for advancement in their current careers.
Title When it comes to the topic of liberal arts, most of us would readily agree that liberal arts is a tough subject to deal with at college institutions, but it serves as an purpose to help us later in the future. Higher education may not be everyone’s option in life but its open for all people of all ages, whether students are in a classroom or not and if there communicating with professors face to face; it’s an experience that will later benefit people. On the topic of liberal arts, Charles Murray author of “Are Too Many People Going College” states, “K-8 are the right years to teach the core knowledge, and the effort should get off to running start in elementary school.” Murray apparently assumes that children memorizing skills are better equipped than adults are, and younger children enjoy the learning process opposed to high school and college students, who will lose interest in taking these courses that involves liberal arts.
Katie Gathman Professor Star College Comp 16 October 2013 Pro Co-Mingling Legislation Apart of the typical every day college experience would involve the opposite sex. Usually having mingled classes with both male and female is a good part of the college experience since it gives the opportunity to expand a persons social circle and gives the chance to intermingle with the opposite sex. Some students have come from all boy and all girl high schools, which they may not of experienced the opportunity to socialize and talk with the opposite sex. Saying all of this, I am against the Anti Co-Mingling Legislation because I believe that socialization with the opposite sex will help later in life, having the opposite sex in a classroom does
Advertisments and advertisers from for-profit colleges have different methods toward the students they target. Recruiters look for people who know very little about for-profit colleges. The people who are willing to give advertisers the time to listen and believe what they say are who they search for. Listening to a recruiter from a college makes people feel that they’re capable of being in college, in some way it boosts their self-confidence to make them feel just as smart as everyone else in college. Kayla Webley from Educational Financing shares her thoughts on the higher education policy, Low-income below poverty students ranging from 18 to 26 are who advertisers search for to bring into their school because of the student loans they will be piled on with.
College Student Journal says, “College student success and graduation are important to students seeking a degree and to the nation's communities, yet only just better than half of the students who enroll in 4-year colleges and universities will receive a bachelor's degree within 6 years (Sparkman, Maulding & Roberts, 2012).” In any new career journey it could be intimidating at first. Because doing something new and unfamiliar can quickly change your mind about whether you will stick with it or not, it is important to have a clear reason as to why going back to college is the next step, goals that will keep your end result in mind, and a positive attitude about the new adventure. Proving to oneself that they can achieve something that once seemed so far can give you the courage to go after other challenges that may have seemed impossible or