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From a very young age, I would constantly hear family members telling me about the importance of pursuing a post-secondary education and most importantly, getting good grades. By doing so, I would be ensuring myself a financially stable life in which I wouldn’t have to worry about money. This is the case of many college students, that sometimes are forced to attend college by their parents because he or she will be able to find a good job. This and many other factors have lead student to seek different levels of education to obtain a better position with higher salary. We have lost the focus of real education and related it with grades GPAs, job positions, and pay. This has caused society to live in a cave in which student are the …show more content…

Most of us grow up working hard to get good grades in high school to eventually attend the school of our dreams, and find a job with excellent pay. Few are the people who go to college with a true passion for education and hoping to use that knowledge for the benefit of others. In other words, if you don’t go to college you will “end up working at McDonald’s for the rest of your life.” That was a common statement my family would say when we talked about college and grades. Basically, we go to college to help us find a “good” job. No college degree would represent stress, financial struggle, and regret. Is that the ultimate goal of real …show more content…

Making an effort to improve grades and gpa, I do not consider to wrong as long as it is for effective learning purposes and not with the intention of hoping for a better job or higher pay. Students focus so much on having good grades to build an impressive resume that they cannot see the light outside the cave (The Good) which is education and the knowledge from generations that it’s being offered to these students. Education has been degraded because of our grading system. Every time students take a test, they determine how well they did based on the results/grade rather than what they learned.
THE GOOD/ LIGHT OUTSIDE THE CAVE It is true that having an educational background could potentially result in opportunities other people do not have, and there is nothing wrong with that. However, education and knowledge should not be related to grades, gpa, success, or wealth. Education itself is a blessing that sadly not everybody has. Real education gives us the opportunity to develop and further our thinking, making us more conscious and capable of discerning the information presented to us every day. Plato said: “The purpose of education is to give to the body and to the soul all the beauty and all the perfection of which they are

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