Justification for Higher Education

Conversely, the article Poets & Quants: “Is A College Degree Worth The Money?” assumes that: “It’s true that you would be better off with a college degree. But that assumes you either have the money to pay for it or will make enough money to pay it off. It assumes you can earn your college degree, find a job and pay it off. And those are assumptions” (Allen). For some people, college is a waste of time and money, if the money is in their hands, they might attend college and complete the career they always wanted, so that in the end they receive a well-paid job, which also helps you to pay your university debt. Accordingly to students who are able to attend to college are motivated to earn their degree

In “College Is a Waste of Time and Money,” written by Caroline Bird illustrates that college is not for everyone. There are many reasons that Bird lists so that readers and colleges can understand that tuition is never going to decrease. Bird uses diction, tone, sentence structures, locos, ethos, and pathos to prove that college students attend college hoping to get a better job and people who decide not to go to college do not want to waste their time and money.

In recent discussions of “Is College Worth It?” By John Green, a controversial issue has been whether, people should attend college or get a job after they finish high school. On the one hand, some argue that people can get a monthly income better than if they have a degree. From this perspective, some people they do not want to attend college. On the other hand, however, others insist that people should attend college after they finish high school. In the words of John Green, one of this view’s proponents, “after graduating from college, I actually made $1 per hour less when I started working as an assistant at Booklist Magazine, but the job was better in every way” (video). According to this view, he was working at Stake and Shake and he was getting better salary than what he got after graduate by 1$ less but money is not everything in life. Then he proved to the audiences through his experience that he was more comfortable with working as assistant at Booklist Magazine even he is making less money. Because he got a better job, got the knowledge, and work on something that he like. In sum, then, the issue is whether to attend college or work without a degree. My own view is that attending college is worth it even if it will cost some sacrifices of things that we can get it in the future. After, all, I have chosen to identify as a college student at Winona State University. Though I concede that choosing the university and working to

Caroline Bird’s essay “College is a Waste of Time and Money” explains her beliefs on why, for some people, going to college is an ineffective and inefficient use of their time. She states that many students do not belong in college because they are there for the wrong reasons and they are not happy learning. She also gives evidence to suggest that going to college and getting a degree does not actually allows a person to make more money in their life time. Her final claim is that college does not prepare most students for the real world and the jobs they will have once they graduate.

Higher education has a vast history; beginning in the early colonial period and spanning ten generations. With its wide range of history, aspects of higher education have changed as the ideals and reforms of society adjusted. Albeit, the missions and purposes of college have remained the same. In this paper, I will clarify the three main missions and purposes of higher education. Then, I will shift the focus of the paper to the area I would like to pursue in higher education and how it reflects those purposes.

Higher education has become a staple of American society. With over 20 million students attending over 4,500 degree granting institutions, the role that higher education has played on larger society is paramount (Thelin, 2017). However, despite the popularity of higher education institutions, the exact purpose of higher education has changed from century to century and may serve different purposes depending on who is asked. Higher education today is arguably both a public and private good. While state and federal governments have invested in a variety of higher education initiatives, as well as assisted thousands of students with attending college through loans and scholarships in hopes that students use their acquired skills and

In recent discussions of Is College Worth It? By John Green, a controversial issue has been whether, people should attend college or get a job after they finish high school. On the one hand, some argue that people can get a monthly income better than if they have a degree. From this perspective, some people they do not want to attend college. On the other hand, however, others insist that people should attend college after they finish high school. In the words of John Green, one of this view’s proponents, “after graduating from college, I actually made $1 per hour less when I started working as an assistant at Booklist Magazine, but the job was better in every way” (video). According to this view, he was working at Stake and Shake and he was getting better salary than what he got after graduate by 1$ less but money is not everything in life. Then he proved to the audiences through his experience that he was more comfortable with working as assistant at Booklist Magazine even he is making less money. Because he got a better job, got the knowledge, and work on something that he like. In sum, then, the issue is whether to attend college or work without a degree. My own view is that attending college is worth it even if it will cost some sacrifices of things that we can get it in the future. After, all, I have chosen to identify as a college student at Winona State University. Though I concede that choosing the university and working to enroll and pay the

The author raises many key points that I find to be all valid. As an avid believer of college education, I find value in it and that is why I am currently attending university. There are a myriad of claims and stories of people who have succeeded without a college degree, and therefore argue against its necessity. However, in reality, such cases are rare and

He strongly favours colleges to be successful in life and for the most part I agree with his understanding. Hrabowski has a saying mentioned as the first line of his article “Those Who Claim Education Is a Waste of Time Are Missing the Bigger Picture” (Hrabowski-259). From this saying he means to say that those people who claim that achieving education is worthless and neglect higher education on bases of waste of time are missing many different opportunities in their life and would never be able to look over the options they had in their future. First of in his article he points out the economic view of higher level studies, By stating that college are expensive and students take crippling loans and when they graduate they are un prepared for the world of work but he states that its worth it. He says that “College graduates are much more likely to be employed than those with only a high school diploma and earn substantially higher salaries”(Hrabowski-260).

In high school, every student that applied to the college of their choice always mentioned about the cost of college. Before the final decision, students had to know whether or not they could afford the college or else they would find themselves paying off a heavy debt. Even with the extremely high cost of college, Caroline Bird’s article, “College is a Waste of Time and Money,” tries to convince readers that there is little to no point in attending college. She talks about all the redundancies that college is supposedly teaching us and believes that people should just go straight to work after high school. I do agree with Bird that colleges is expensive, however, the evidence she gives to support how college is a waste of time and money was

He went to Santa Maria High. He didn’t go to collage because of boxing. But his boxing career has gone far.

After graduating high school, he went to Occidental College, LA, where he studied for 2 years before getting transferred to Columbia University in New York.

It has been said over and over again that human intellect is important to have. As we grow older, we can see that this statement is true. Knowledge is a powerful attribute. Some people may argue that the only way to be an intellectual person is to have a piece a paper signed and noted by a superior official affirming you have done all the coursework within the field of study i.e. a diploma. Others may be at the other end of the spectrum and believe that real knowledge is something that we gain as we grow older and can be reinforced with hands on experience. The author Charles Murray, writes in his essay, “Are Too Many People Going to College,” people who go to college are strategically creating a separation in the American class system and

Financially being able to afford life after college is a priority that many students carefully plan for. The only issue both sides do agree on is that the majors most student's are currently studying will not have a high demand for job placement once they graduate with their degrees. The two communities say the majors that most student's study will not provide them with the economic resources they may need to be sufficient during post college. In 2007 unemployment rates for student's who had a bachelor's degree was 4.9 percent and 8.5 percent for people with associates degrees and high school diplomas (Billitteri). Providing proof that the job market and the majors that students were choosing did not coincide with one another, resulting in the two communities claiming money may have been wasted in order to educate the unemployed, also assuming the money invested did not go to proper use.

Senator John Kerry said in a 2004 presidential debate that “Our college students represent only 20 percent