Higher Education is a luxury commodity in our modern-day society that not many individuals around the world, let alone the United States, are lucky enough to have access to. That means that we shouldn’t squander this opportunity that has been presented before us; if we do as much then we fail all of the individuals that don’t possess the same privileges as us. So “how will we live” in a manner that will be beneficial to all and not throw away this winning lottery ticket that people such as myself are lucky enough to be born into? In order to figure out how we should live our lives, we need to look at the questions that need to be asked: “what does our current process of higher education ‘enable,” “who are the benefactors from higher education,”
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That’s when you become a number to them. The institution is no longer worried about you as a developing individual. They put forth onto you a course load that will indeed prepare you for your career but it will also simultaneously erode your individuality. So it results in a sort of give and take circumstance where you lose what makes you yourself in a sense, but you gain knowledge on what you hopefully want to learn. What a great deal! Higher Education has a lot to offer us but we just need to be able to utilize the information that is given to us in a more holistic way. Use what we learn to advocate for those that don’t have the power to do so. Women and minorities in this country tend to be disregarded by our white patriarchal system. Utilizing what we learn from these institutions we should advocate and use our privilege for the social “progress” in our society because “the driving value in this society is progress.” (LaDuke 178) We just need to make the right kind of progress. Progress towards equality of all demographics and denominations through the altering of our habits and how we utilize the information we get from higher education. The purpose of higher education should be for greater understanding of the intricacies of our world so that way we can advocate for those that can benefit from our
That’s when you become a number to them. The institution is no longer worried about you as a developing individual. They put forth onto you a course load that will indeed prepare you for your career but it will also simultaneously erode your individuality. So it results in a sort of give and take circumstance where you lose what makes you yourself in a sense, but you gain knowledge on what you hopefully want to learn. What a great deal! Higher Education has a lot to offer us but we just need to be able to utilize the information that is given to us in a more holistic way. Use what we learn to advocate for those that don’t have the power to do so. Women and minorities in this country tend to be disregarded by our white patriarchal system. Utilizing what we learn from these institutions we should advocate and use our privilege for the social “progress” in our society because “the driving value in this society is progress.” (LaDuke 178) We just need to make the right kind of progress. Progress towards equality of all demographics and denominations through the altering of our habits and how we utilize the information we get from higher education. The purpose of higher education should be for greater understanding of the intricacies of our world so that way we can advocate for those that can benefit from our