The Importance Of Education In Education

While Education ought to be an outlet for personal growth and understanding, it is growing less probable that students can afford a well-rounded college experience. Instead, their experience typically results in a compilation of four years’ worth of memorized facts without very much actual understanding or growth. What is a broke college kid to do if they find themselves without work after all their years in school? If their education truly did consist primarily of memorized information, then there is very little they can do. However, if their education is focused on understanding and real life application, then there is hope for the broke college graduate. This is because the education they received encourages that a student’s worth be found

How does this sort of education revival come about? First, the education present today ought to be compared to an “ideal” education of understanding. Education during the 2000’s quite often involves a brainy professor presenting facts and ideas to their students with which, they must become fairly comfortable with for the extent of the semester. Then, after graduation, they are to somehow recall all they memorized in an effort to find a job. Or else, the expenses of life in America will simply send them running to the nearest fast food joint or department store in sight. Unfortunately, this is because the education they paid thousands of dollars for, simply does not stick with them past the semester or test they are memorizing it for. Gardner believed that for education to stick, it ought to involve some aspect from all eight of his multiple intelligences, or MI’s, especially those in which a student excels. If a student excels in a certain area, he is simply more likely to hold

Due to the ever-growing population, the number of available jobs is dwindling. According to the US Census Bureau, America’s population in November of last year was approximately 317,029,278 (Census.gov). With this in mind, a college education certainly increases one’s odds when partaking in the competitive job market. But, if a college education is what it takes to be competitive, then won’t more and more individuals simply attend college? Then what? When everyone is waving around their diplomas to find a job, haven 't students then lost the competitive advantage they worked so hard for? “Houston we have a problem”! They survived college and are ready to apply their memorized facts and experiences to a career they have been looking forward to for years now. Only, they were not able to actually acquire the job and now find themselves cemented in their debt and often without a plan B. Society and its tricky little fingers have students right where it wants them; stuck in debt with nowhere to turn. Well educated college students in very deep piles of debt are found with diploma in hand working fast food or lower level blue collar jobs. This is when matters become devastating. There are now two options on the table. If the graduate cannot find work in their desired field they can return to school and simply increase their debt by a few extra thousand or they