Wallace Speech Vs Edmundson

In high school students learned a lot of information because of the courses they took. When the students get to college they must use that previous knowledge and study tips to help them get through each semester. In college the students learn a large amount of information in a short period of time, but their knowledge on the topic has definitely grown more than just what they learned in high school. Even if the information students learned in high school isn’t being transferred over to their college education, their knowledge is still broadening due to all of the new information they are learning in the other courses they never took before. In “Don’t Send Your Kid to the Ivy League,” William Deresieicz argues, “The first thing that college is for is to teach you to think” (5). That is a major component to the college education. Thinking doesn’t come easy to all educationally, but college helps your mind think clearer and more intellectually. The information you learn in college follows you years later after a student graduates and will help a student advance in any way

“There is no divide in American life that hurts more than the one between those we consider well educated and those who are poorly or inadequately schooled” (Spayde 60). According to John Spayde, author of “Learning in the Key of Life," a university education is a defining role in the well-being and success of people in today’s society. Similarly, John Henry Newman, in his essay, “The Idea of a University,” believes too that education gives “man the clear conscious view of his own opinions and judgments, a truth in developing them, an eloquence in expressing them, and force in urging them” (49), thus making him a well rounded human being. In fact, many people today agree with the ideas of these two writers, that a university education is the first step to becoming successful in one’s life. Therefore, in today’s educational system, a person has the ability to grow as a member of his or her society and culture, gain knowledge for a career in the “real world” and mature both spiritually and physically.

Higher education, to me, is meant for learning about what life truly entails. It is to teach the student, not to find every answer in life, but to create more questions that will eventually need to be answered. Ronald Barnett wrote The Idea of Higher Education, in which Barnett wrote about how higher education, “is not complete unless the student realizes that, no matter how much effort is put in, or how much library research, there are no final answers”. Ronald Barnett’s intended meaning in his selection is to explain that higher education is not supposed to be just like secondary education. Higher education is supposed to destroy the student’s “taken-for-granted world” in which they had been raised and taught to know. First world students have been raised in a place where education is offered to almost everyone, where most people live with roofs over their heads, and have food in their bellies every night. Higher education reveals life and its hardships, and how it affects us and the people we are surrounded by. It shows the truth about the world, and uncovers the information that

However, Percy Walker may have another view of what is lacking in schools. Walker believes we ultimately have the ability to make choices about what we gain from our experiences. We are often told that we can choose our profession, choose where we live and who we marry, but we are never told that we can choose how we think. In ‘The Loss of the Creature,’ Walker writes about how our perceptions interact with reality.

Attending college is not necessarily the mind expanding endeavor everyone makes it out to be. It is assumed college graduates will be better critical thinkers and problem solvers, but those benefits do not automatically

What is the purpose of college? Imagine a classroom with 30 students. The desks are in evenly spaced rows facing the whiteboard. The professor paces back and forth, while reading off a PowerPoint. The students frantically write what is said, in case of something not being in the textbook. Every week there are quizzes and every month there is a test. Not once does the professor ask the class their thoughts on the topic. Rarely does the professor stop to answer questions. When the class is stopped for questions, the textbook is used to answer them. However, the answer mimics the original explanation, this ultimately leaving the question unanswered. There is a distance between the professor and students. Freire believes college should be used to improve society. However, this view is not shared by society. Students and the college itself feel the purpose of a college education is to get the recognition of training and knowledge that a good job requires because of the current college education system.

...ary or spelling- but college is about more than that. College is to train the mind and prepare it with the critical thinking skills and knowledge for future careers. For example, it wouldn’t make sense to say “Keep practicing until you understand" because practicing doesn’t create understanding – just as giving students a deadline doesn’t teach time-management skills.

An education is a major component in the human growth and development of a human being. Furthermore, a college education is just as important to any individual that is willing to take advantage of what the world has to offer. A college is important for a variety of reasons for anyone. A college education is a guide that can aid one in finding the right path to lead in their adult life. To me an education is not an option while many may feel that a college education is an option for me it is not a choice it is mandatory. To best understand the importance of a college education to me I will reveal my reason for continuing my journey of education. As the reader, you will be able to understand how much a college education is important to me and my reason for exerting the feelings that I have towards an education.

Deresiewicz begins his viewpoint on college education by contrasting different experiences and criticizing those that didn’t get the most out of their education. By “shaming students out of their intellectual appetites,” Deresiewicz criticizes students that believe college is just solemnly for learning about a career. The author is trying to get students to think of the bigger picture- what they can later obtain from their education- which requires students to realize that preparing for a career isn’t enough to expand on their knowledge about the world. Deresiewicz also contrasts the differences between college lectures and a dorm environment by using diction such as “stringency” and “normative” for college lectures and “freedom” and “subversive”

People attend college for a multitude of reasons, but ultimately it is to prepare for a brighter future. As stated by Malcolm X, “Education is our passport to the future, for tomorrow belongs only to the people who prepare for it today.” Hence why college is so crucial; it is essential in helping to pave the way in setting and achieving goals, whether they are short or long term; acknowledging our weaknesses, along with assisting and providing the skills needed to overcome them; and defining our strengths.