To be advanced and successful in one’s life, higher position and income are essential, and it indicates the need of higher education. Gradually, more and more people in the world are pursuing to earn a higher degree to improve their lives. Then, how is this education working in our society? This paper will illustrate, based on my observation and experience in Korea, how education system is operating and influencing on human beings in a sociological perspective.
Students in Korea do not have free time. As soon as attending elementary school, children learn English, math, and other physical activities. Even there are some private institutions for speed reading. High school students get more stressed. I almost lived at school from 8 a.m. to 9 p.m. The regular classes ended around 5 p.m., but we should take a mandatory supplementary lesson for an hour and do evening self-study for two hours. We could go home early when there was a relevant excuse. However, frequent absence made us as a faithless person, so we could not help but sit on the chair.
In Korea, ardor for study is substantially strong among not only students, but also their parents. Even though children do not want to study, parents keep sending them to private institutions. The society is constructed with the idea that top-ranked schools and outstanding grades guarantee your bright and successful future. Why does this notion permeate the people all over the country?
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Education as a whole has been the key to the future and provides to the students with skill that they could not get anywhere. The new age has clearly shown us that education is a vital ingredient for a person’s future. Education has shown that one who studies further has a better lifestyle and will be highly respected, but what education cannot do is offer everyone the opportunity to succeed. Only a few students can take advantage of education; because if suddenly
In one of the article we have read in the book They Say I Say describes, college is prepare people for job, but college is more prepare people to life in the another way. It is true that education helps people for life and that is the main function of the education. For example, my friend’s aunt Alba is who gets a doctor degree to earn more than $200,000 a year. Alba’s husband is who gets elementary diploma and the boss of the farm. They are both rich, but they are total different person. They always argue for small things and divorce at the end. Alba says, “ we are divorce is because my husband never believe me, and he is easy to believe what another people say, and what he see, he never give me a chance to explain.” Alba feels the education give her difference opinion with his husband. Difference level of education gives people difference opinion. Education is very important to people, it will function them to know something they might not know, to think about something they have never know about, to forward them in the right
In today’s world, young people think that if they continue their tertiary education, they can access a better job, no matter which subject they take. This situation indirectly causes a huge enrollment of students into universities and colleges, which may drop off the quality of education. As the author says, “quantity trumps quality” (pg. 168) which certify that the environment is skipped from education to jobs; meanwhile, the knowledge part is ignored by the students. In detail, they do not expect to learn something but just to get a degree which acts as “a passport to consideration for a job”. (pg. 164) This condition gradually turns credentialing into the norm. Everyone only cares about the degree that they will receive rather than concerning about what they will learn and develop through their subject’s material.
Malcolm X once said “education is the passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today”. From adolescence to adulthood almost every person is put through schooling. As one gets older in age, the education they obtain becomes more rigorous in order to stretch their minds far beyond two plus two or what color the sky is. The strategies of critically thinking and being able to analyze/decipher information in front is them is reinforced routinely in the educational system. With this being said, the purpose of education is to aid in enhancing one’s qualification, socialisation, and subjectification skills within the society regardless of how or where one’s education was obtained.
Apart from the idea that college degree does not decide the path of life, the author asserts that it is still worth people’s time. According to the author’s data, most people who do not own a college degree perform worse in careers
People in the past did not stress value of receiving a higher education because it was not as indispensable as it is today. Now, people perceive others not only by their appearances, but by their accomplishments. Employers always hire people with the most education and experience. The majority of students are concerned about getting a higher education throughout the years. Nevertheless, some people question the purposes of getting educated, and consider it meaningless. The concept of education has a significant meaning. It enables one to take control of knowledge and apply it. It is education what prepares the mind to comprehend and learn important ideas. A higher education is very important for an individual's success in
Christopher Caldwell, the author of “WHAT A COLLEGE EDUCATION BUYS” presents his idea on college education of a 4-year college degree in American. The author’s assertion that college degree is not for everyone; it is something superb and looks like prime but it does not guarantee graduates’ practical productivity and usefulness in the particular professions or fields. Also, he assertion includes that nowadays college education has been increasing because of its growth in demands and increased popularity. Thus, is it worthwhile for parents to place a lot of raw financial chunk on the children’s college degrees, while it does not even benefit graduates as it did before? The author argues about how
America’s education system has recently been a concern for many people. A recent international test “shows the U.S. trailing behind educational powerhouses like Korea and Finland.” (The Atlantic) In addition, the U.S. was 26th out of the 34 countries who took the International Student Exam; considering the U.S. has the world’s largest economy, this rank is abysmal. If the U.S. wants to improve their education rankings, they are going to have to look at countries who are currently seeking success. Two of those countries, Finland and Korea, approach education quite differently than the U.S; nevertheless, their methods seem to be working for them.
Although holding a degree doesn’t have muchpower as it did decades ago, people who have a bachelor’s degree earn twice as more than peoplewith a high school diploma. Most students do not have the capability of enduring four moreyears of college, and furthermore indicate that not everyone should be able to attend highereducation.Higher education is supposed to be considered an essential component of a democraticsociety. It is almost a rite of passage to seek college after high school graduation. Societynowadays requires basic analysis of finance, education, and public health in order to prosper inAmerica. But due to low demand of motivation for college, students are highly discouraged on
As a society, we mainly focus on short term benefits and don’t acknowledge all the benefits which higher education will bring over the course of one’s life. In conclusion, education brings about positive changes among individuals, society, nations and the world as a whole. Benefits of education cannot be justified until one goes through it. The world without education would be a world in a state of turmoil. Hence, to be successful in this life, one must enhance their skills and knowledge through the virtue of
Is individual, spiritual, and academic growth the main purpose of receiving a higher education? Or has college become all about prestige, competition, and social hierarchy? Is the high cost of a higher education really worth the money? Initially education was believed to be an opportunity to prepare and develop individuals to reach their fullest potential and help, contribute, and promote equality and social advancement to a society. However, over the past decades, this idealistic view of a higher education has been distorted due to several factors, issues, trends, and conflicts that have impacted the cost, purpose, and definition of what education really provides students.
Attending college gives a person countless opportunities which is why more and more people are going to college. Menand explains the different educational system that shows how much of a mess the American education system really is. The theories Menand claims in the article are good models for the purpose of higher education in our culture throughout our history. There is not much that anyone can agree on based on every man having a different opinion on the matter and how to educate our children, but Menand shows us the three main ideas of education and he points the flaws out with ease. These three theories have been developed and explain the meaning of college.
Nowadays, education become one of the most reason as consideration to workplace. The higher education we get; also higher what job can we get too. Even now, people that just graduated from Senior High School more difficult to get a job. No wonder, many people nowadays start realize about the important of education for their future and continue their study to the next level, university. Beside for searching for a job, people also go to university for social status. Sometimes people who can go to university is just a people that come from middle and up class. That’s why people can more appreciate people who go to university. Because as we know that university is not that cheap. Another reason is, to find new friends
Different countries in Asia such as China and Korea have achieved spectacular economic growth rapidly. At the same time, people have tended to focus on education. It is standard to receive the message from parents that enrolling in a prestigious college or university is equivalent of success in life. Parents send their children to tutoring or cram school since early age. It is not only parents but also teachers that become the key reason for strong students’ performance of education. In addition, children in Asian families tend to have more clearly defined roles than their American counterparts, and it is believed this is one reason why Asian students tend to be exceptionally good in the classroom. But we need to take a deeper look to try to understand how the role of parents impact in a student performance during college in Asia.
Firstly, society should view higher education as much more than the path to obtaining a degree. The real merit of higher education lies not in the practical use of a degree to obtain a job, but simply in the acquisition of more knowledge. On a basic level, attending a university gives young minds a space in which to study their chosen field. The Chinese philosopher Hsun Tzu argued that