Lang 1
Evan Lang
Professor: Guerra
English 101, 11:00am
October 29, 2015
Essay 2
Up to the Individual Higher education is believed to be the only solution to must young people for accelerating in life, and without it they won’t be a successful individual, and to them it’s worth years of debt. They assume that when they get out of college, that they will be given an enjoyable, high paying job. Not only do they value their education enough to pay so much money, college students sacrifice time. Time to enjoy their youthfulness, and time for their family. For something to take so much of your time, how can you make the assumption that somehow with a degree you will be a more knowledgeable, successful person? College administrators may think that …show more content…
Adults that may be easy to manipulate and make way for the elites. John Taylor Gatto states “We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness—curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids to truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take risk every now and then”. Although it’s not the education that’s restricting students, its students as individuals. Of course Gatto is right about the price of admission, but what it really comes down to is that students should not strive for the grade, but the knowledge. It’s evident that if students are going to pay so much money for a piece of paper, they should make the most of it. By that I mean students should strive to learn, and teachers shouldn’t pass students just for a good rating. Magdalena Kay, a successful writer for the “American Scholar”, says that “And instructors who give high grades tend to receive high evaluations from their students.” In “A New Course”. She concludes this thought with students should be taught failure, so they can learn from their mistakes. In fact, if students don’t face failure, then the real challenge will be in the work …show more content…
The world makes it seem like once you start your career you will be completely set for everything that needs to be done in your job. Jenny Jones, a reporter for the “American Society of Civil Engineers”, wrote a piece that included interviews of multiple civil engineers. In the interviews a question about what the role of schooling had played in each of the subject’s career’s, Jenny jones mentions that “nearly all of those interviewed agreed that their schooling prepared them well for the workforce, but they were surprised to discover that being a civil engineer involves a great deal more than math and science” (Jones, pg.1). I agree that there was a lot more to civil engineering than they thought, but times have changed when it comes to schooling. Education back when they were in school probably taught failure, unlike the everybody wins education programs of
Evan Lang
Professor: Guerra
English 101, 11:00am
October 29, 2015
Essay 2
Up to the Individual Higher education is believed to be the only solution to must young people for accelerating in life, and without it they won’t be a successful individual, and to them it’s worth years of debt. They assume that when they get out of college, that they will be given an enjoyable, high paying job. Not only do they value their education enough to pay so much money, college students sacrifice time. Time to enjoy their youthfulness, and time for their family. For something to take so much of your time, how can you make the assumption that somehow with a degree you will be a more knowledgeable, successful person? College administrators may think that …show more content…
Adults that may be easy to manipulate and make way for the elites. John Taylor Gatto states “We could encourage the best qualities of youthfulness—curiosity, adventure, resilience, the capacity for surprising insight simply by being more flexible about time, texts, and tests, by introducing kids to truly competent adults, and by giving each student what autonomy he or she needs in order to take risk every now and then”. Although it’s not the education that’s restricting students, its students as individuals. Of course Gatto is right about the price of admission, but what it really comes down to is that students should not strive for the grade, but the knowledge. It’s evident that if students are going to pay so much money for a piece of paper, they should make the most of it. By that I mean students should strive to learn, and teachers shouldn’t pass students just for a good rating. Magdalena Kay, a successful writer for the “American Scholar”, says that “And instructors who give high grades tend to receive high evaluations from their students.” In “A New Course”. She concludes this thought with students should be taught failure, so they can learn from their mistakes. In fact, if students don’t face failure, then the real challenge will be in the work …show more content…
The world makes it seem like once you start your career you will be completely set for everything that needs to be done in your job. Jenny Jones, a reporter for the “American Society of Civil Engineers”, wrote a piece that included interviews of multiple civil engineers. In the interviews a question about what the role of schooling had played in each of the subject’s career’s, Jenny jones mentions that “nearly all of those interviewed agreed that their schooling prepared them well for the workforce, but they were surprised to discover that being a civil engineer involves a great deal more than math and science” (Jones, pg.1). I agree that there was a lot more to civil engineering than they thought, but times have changed when it comes to schooling. Education back when they were in school probably taught failure, unlike the everybody wins education programs of