Students Excelling in Higher Education or Are They?
For a person to be educated, it means they are openminded and preserving . When someone is educated, they see and know beyond of what they are told and don’t make judgements fairly unless they have been deeply invested. An educated person is someone who works hard into looking deep within instead of scratching the surface and is dedicated to their work . In “A New Course”, Magdalena Kay makes an honorable mention to Christopher Lasch’s,
“The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, and uncovers the roadblocks faced in higher education today. Kay emphasizes that the direction of pressures for majors, grade inflation, and “edutainment” is not the right direction …show more content…
Education shouldn’t be about getting the easy “A” but to triumph in challenges and learning from failure to preserve and motivate to go further and beyond.
In “ A New Course” one of the roadblocks kay addresses in the article is the grade inflation that has recently increased in the years that has become ubiquitous. Kay acknowledges this roadblock when she states “ Our system of grade inflation is dishonest,” (Kay). This has become a roadblock in higher education because students are basically being given A’s to please the students in given teachers to give good evaluations on their performances and to the administrators who benefit from grade inflation with the reputation a college would have with a high grade percentage rate. In a way, it has become the condescension of education because it doesn’t allow the ability to learn and sort of bends the rules to allow students to pass. If grades are being handed out very easy then it allows the student to not be challenged in the learning process and gain what information that they come by in the class to acknowledge students. If education is all about handing easy grades then it 's not really an education at …show more content…
In the course of the roadblocks the group that actually has to give out these grades are the teachers. Teachers hand out grades that will get their students to pass by pleasing the student by boosting their selfesteems and getting a good evaluation and praises from their bosses, the administration. Kay refers to this as a business when she states, “ Instructors create products
(courses) that consumers (students) want while hoping for larger and larger enrollments so that the real bosses(administrators) approve of their productivity”(Kay). Teachers then have the pressures to pass students whether students deserve it or not and please their bosses without getting fired.
In order to solve to solve a problem of grade inflation I think there needs to be a change in perspective of what a grade really is. A grade should be what the student earns that they work hard for and actually gaining knowledge to do so. A grade is something that should be a hard decison teachers need to make like how kay referred to, “. . . maintaining clear and rigorous standards, making it possible for students to fail while encouraging them to learn
For a person to be educated, it means they are openminded and preserving . When someone is educated, they see and know beyond of what they are told and don’t make judgements fairly unless they have been deeply invested. An educated person is someone who works hard into looking deep within instead of scratching the surface and is dedicated to their work . In “A New Course”, Magdalena Kay makes an honorable mention to Christopher Lasch’s,
“The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations”, and uncovers the roadblocks faced in higher education today. Kay emphasizes that the direction of pressures for majors, grade inflation, and “edutainment” is not the right direction …show more content…
Education shouldn’t be about getting the easy “A” but to triumph in challenges and learning from failure to preserve and motivate to go further and beyond.
In “ A New Course” one of the roadblocks kay addresses in the article is the grade inflation that has recently increased in the years that has become ubiquitous. Kay acknowledges this roadblock when she states “ Our system of grade inflation is dishonest,” (Kay). This has become a roadblock in higher education because students are basically being given A’s to please the students in given teachers to give good evaluations on their performances and to the administrators who benefit from grade inflation with the reputation a college would have with a high grade percentage rate. In a way, it has become the condescension of education because it doesn’t allow the ability to learn and sort of bends the rules to allow students to pass. If grades are being handed out very easy then it allows the student to not be challenged in the learning process and gain what information that they come by in the class to acknowledge students. If education is all about handing easy grades then it 's not really an education at …show more content…
In the course of the roadblocks the group that actually has to give out these grades are the teachers. Teachers hand out grades that will get their students to pass by pleasing the student by boosting their selfesteems and getting a good evaluation and praises from their bosses, the administration. Kay refers to this as a business when she states, “ Instructors create products
(courses) that consumers (students) want while hoping for larger and larger enrollments so that the real bosses(administrators) approve of their productivity”(Kay). Teachers then have the pressures to pass students whether students deserve it or not and please their bosses without getting fired.
In order to solve to solve a problem of grade inflation I think there needs to be a change in perspective of what a grade really is. A grade should be what the student earns that they work hard for and actually gaining knowledge to do so. A grade is something that should be a hard decison teachers need to make like how kay referred to, “. . . maintaining clear and rigorous standards, making it possible for students to fail while encouraging them to learn