The Importance Of College Education

Is college worth all the labor and expense for college students to get a good education? Currently, American college students are preparing for another semester of their college years which they and their families has been involved in numerous effort and time toward the students educations. A Pew research survey shows that that 74 percent of graduates from four-year colleges say that their education was “very useful in helping them grow intellectually.” Sixty-nine percent said that “it was very useful in helping them grow and mature as a person” and 55 percent claimed that “it was very useful in helping prepare them for a job or career.” Moreover, 86 percent of these graduates think “college has been a good investment for them personally.”

Gary Gutting explain how college education system hasn’t been going in the right direction. In Gary Gutting viewpoints, college students find that their college course is becoming boring and is only useful in the field of what the college students are majoring into like computer science. After reading and analyzing Gary Gutting discussion, I believe that college students are not getting enough education they needed. For example, in order for college students to get enough education, college instructor should not always focus what is interesting for college students but also focus on whatever the college instructor is teacher for the college student’s benefit. Another example is that college students should always be open-minded toward the teaching of college

The reason why college instructors should focus on their teaching is because that college student’s emphasis more on getting their college course finish as soon as possible and only taking college course that directly relate to the major or field of interest. This can have a negative effect toward college students. A research shown in Anthony Grafton survey and article “Our Universities: Why Are They Failing?” that only about 50 percent of college and university students persist to graduation, and almost half will not finish a bachelor’s program within six years. College costs are soaring and student loan debt is a huge burden for many. This is leaning toward college students and families financial status problem where college students lack important education in their majoring. How can college instructors improve college students learning experience? To improve this situation is for college instructors to get college students more involve during their class time. Another good improvement for college students to gain learning experience is also collective effort from group. This helps nourish the students experience and knowledge for learning. In the past, I have experience this before in my last semester where I saw a student’s leave the classroom while the instructor is giving a lecture. The reason why those students the classroom was because the instructor for that class