The Purpose of Education in The Twenty-First Century
At past times, people were hardly attending colleges based on limited resources, gender discriminationo and race factors. But with time passed by, the world is changing rapidly.
Globalized economy creates more opportunities, challenges, unpredictable changes, and competition for people. Education is now considering a basic living standard in the twenty-first century based on technology improvement, science development, and economic growth. In the
U.S.A, almost every child are able to get their high school diploma and around 50% of high school graduates will attend four-year university or higher education. The sustainable challenges and changing population demographics require new thinking …show more content…
University, where student get educated, provide various courses to shape those different students based on their choices in order to help them to find their potencies and achievements because university is not a birthplace of genius, it is the place to transform people to fit into the society with the professional guide of specific zreas. For example, Harvard school always insists to lead their students to realize the self-reliance and built habit of lifelong learning in order to tansform their students leaming style.
I Besides the subject matter, students should not just sit and listen, but also need to participate the social activity and interact with experienced professional in order to shape themselves into a well development people to serve the society.
Education should focus more on quality education instead of making profit. With the technological changes and economy growth, the costs of generating new knowledge, upgrade newest equipment, and hire professional personnel, especially in science, puts stronger …show more content…
This pressure not only brings in ever-greater sums of money from the
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govemment, but also tums schools into economic engines for the society. According to "Leading the 2l$ Century College and University ', Rodney L. Lowman stated that" whatever how school declare their specific mission, education are intended to be economic engines for the communities" (Lowman). Indeed, many schools focus more on wealth generation as an important part of mission instead of improving advancing knowledge because when tuition dollars cannot be increased, schools need to rely on altemative sources of revenue. For example, although Pasadena City College can get a lot of money from the govemment to maintain the operation, but school still cuts a lot of courses such in the winter section, a good amount of full time professors were laid off, and hired part-time professors in order to reduce the budget to develop more profitable area such as new construction and building renovation. More and more students stand out to express their ideas about reopening the winter section and increase the courses for each semester, but nothing changes except the continuous construction projects.
Although improvement of the environment is very important, but if the school use the
At past times, people were hardly attending colleges based on limited resources, gender discriminationo and race factors. But with time passed by, the world is changing rapidly.
Globalized economy creates more opportunities, challenges, unpredictable changes, and competition for people. Education is now considering a basic living standard in the twenty-first century based on technology improvement, science development, and economic growth. In the
U.S.A, almost every child are able to get their high school diploma and around 50% of high school graduates will attend four-year university or higher education. The sustainable challenges and changing population demographics require new thinking …show more content…
University, where student get educated, provide various courses to shape those different students based on their choices in order to help them to find their potencies and achievements because university is not a birthplace of genius, it is the place to transform people to fit into the society with the professional guide of specific zreas. For example, Harvard school always insists to lead their students to realize the self-reliance and built habit of lifelong learning in order to tansform their students leaming style.
I Besides the subject matter, students should not just sit and listen, but also need to participate the social activity and interact with experienced professional in order to shape themselves into a well development people to serve the society.
Education should focus more on quality education instead of making profit. With the technological changes and economy growth, the costs of generating new knowledge, upgrade newest equipment, and hire professional personnel, especially in science, puts stronger …show more content…
This pressure not only brings in ever-greater sums of money from the
*s
govemment, but also tums schools into economic engines for the society. According to "Leading the 2l$ Century College and University ', Rodney L. Lowman stated that" whatever how school declare their specific mission, education are intended to be economic engines for the communities" (Lowman). Indeed, many schools focus more on wealth generation as an important part of mission instead of improving advancing knowledge because when tuition dollars cannot be increased, schools need to rely on altemative sources of revenue. For example, although Pasadena City College can get a lot of money from the govemment to maintain the operation, but school still cuts a lot of courses such in the winter section, a good amount of full time professors were laid off, and hired part-time professors in order to reduce the budget to develop more profitable area such as new construction and building renovation. More and more students stand out to express their ideas about reopening the winter section and increase the courses for each semester, but nothing changes except the continuous construction projects.
Although improvement of the environment is very important, but if the school use the