Is It Important To Pursue A High School Degree?

For most people who want to pursue and can afford higher education, and also is ready to suffer from debt; the option is always available. Whether it’s to continue on achieving a bachelor’s degree, after gaining a high school diploma, or from a masters to a PhD; when people enter the job market with these degrees, which states they are certified to work in the field. that they majored in at a university or college; the graduates are now looking to be employed at a job that will provide a good salary; this will allow them to make a living for themselves and or family. Additionally, this new founded job will help them pay off their college debt. Everyone has their own personal meaning to what they believe, what higher education should serve its

When asked what should one be benefiting from pursing a higher education; the first thought that comes into many minds is the increasing of one’s salary. Many people struggle to make a living by just receiving a high school diploma. It has been proven that the higher one goes with his or her education, the gradually increases also; the pay scale of a person who holds a bachelor’s degree has a higher salary than someone who simply has a high school diploma and the same goes for one who goes further as receiving a master’s degree will have a higher pay scale than one who only has a bachelor’s

A number of people go to college to pursue their dreams and passions, and how much they make, might not be as in important to them, as a result only wanting to enjoy what they love while they work for a living. In wood’s essay “Is college doomed?” Wood introduces Minerva a new way of learning and within this program it consists of, taking classes online; there’s neither extracurricular activities, nor lectures. After wood went through a trial run of the program he said that he was “forced, in effect, to learn. If this was the education of the future, it seemed vaguely fascistic. good, but fascistic.” ( Is College Doomed, page 507,Greame Wood). Minerva goal is to focus on the academics, while method of teaching is great and efficient, although it doesn’t give much room for the students to breath or even enjoy what they are learning. In consequence the program portrays as a dictatorship over education, while sucking out all the passion and enjoyment of what the students are pursuing in school. In the YO-YO MA essay, Yo-Yo Ma states that “When science and the arts, critical and empathetic reasoning are linked to the mainstream will we find a sustainable balance in society” (YO-YO MA, Page 260, Yo-Yo Ma). I believe he is trying to explain, with art and stem combined, more people will have the option to experience and explore their dream and passion, and it will not only be about critical thinking, because without