Is Higher Education Worth the Price?

    

Is Higher Education Worth the Price?

Why is it the goal to obtain a higher education, and is it worth the price? Higher Education's purpose for the high school graduate is to broaden an individual's knowledge and experience and prepare them to on take a career. Is it logical to be in debt because of the college tuition? In many of these scenarios, high school graduates cannot pay tuition, which usually leads them to take loans. The first article, "Are Colleges Worth the Price," talks about a significant point: "Colleges are taking on too many roles and doing none of them well...—and have lost track of their primary mission to challenge the minds of young people." The roles the article mentions are the purpose and success to help students graduate with a degree and develop skills. Is it worth being in debt because of higher education and having to come out with no intellectual aspects? The reason for college is to be challenged and prepared for the future. It is not fair for people to be in debt paying for higher education and not obtain a career in the future.

Investing money in college takes a toll on students because they want higher education to gain experience, knowledge, diploma, and a job. Then, in the end, the student will not be able to pay for the tuition or leave in the middle of their education because they cannot study, work or continue with their loan. Reading the articles gives me a sense that private and public schools have lost the significance of their role. Higher education's purpose is to push forth a student's intelligence and help them to explore their surroundings. While reading The Commencement Speech, what captivated me was the story about the atheist and a religious person. Both had different viewpoints about God, but their perspectives were not wrong, and that is the value that we have to accept the differences, the diversity, the culture and learn from everything. In our society, we continue to grow because we learn from everyone and everywhere. "Two heads are better than one," which is what colleges have to offer is the communication, awareness, and skills to make an individual proper into their adult life.  

The article "New Liberal Art" focuses on the misconceptions liberal vs. vocational schools can provide for students. Liberal Arts can give freedom of many experiences and valuable techniques, so it is not concentrated in one field. That is the problem with higher education these days because it is not provided that range of possibilities for students to come out with a hundred percent assurance that they will get a career and pay their loan, so they are not in debt. The Ivory Tower documentary shows how Harvard people have to take a mandatory course to code. Students are learning how to make websites and apps that help them in the long run. Higher education should allow students to obtain their career but prepare them with skills in other fields that they may want to continue learning and growing. If I were paying for my tuition and gaining zero knowledge or zero chance of opportunities and skills, it would be a waste of my time, money, and family. 

Here is a five-minute video 

Explaining a college degree may no longer be worth its price

"The high cost, high debt, and falling compensation associated with higher education

calls its value into question. Many of the jobs that students are studying to do

will be outsourced or automated, anyway. Knowledge is never a waste, but we need

to stop thinking about higher education as job training and reprice it accordingly."