College is something that we all have to face at some point in our lives. It doesn’t even matter whether or not you might be going to a college, with how today’s society is, the question will arise at so time. Will you go to college? What will you do if you don’t? What will you major in if you do? I was relatively young when I began to plan for college, it was a project that I had in the 8th grade that really inspired my interest. For the project, we had to make a pennant for the college that we wanted to go to and include some of our own research about the college on the back. Originally, my first choice was Princeton. There wasn’t any reason behind the choice, I chose it because Princeton is well Princeton, it is famous in movies and such
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“As opposed to generations of the past, high school graduates today are unable to obtain the number of high-paying jobs that were once available.”(Importance of College Education) America used to have a factory-based economy where people could get jobs in an assembly line or construction workers and make good pay off of it. Now that robots have taken most simple jobs in factories around the world, there is a shortage of skilled workers for higher level jobs. Most of these jobs require a 2 or 4 year college education. Even careers such as an artist, singer, professional mime, are easier with a college education in that field. I am not saying that you have to go to college to live a good life, just look at people like Charles Culpeper, he dropped out of high school and is now th owner and CEO of Coca Cola. The reason why college is such a big issue now is because back in the 19th century, colleges were for teacher-training or medical diplomas. People didn’t need to go to college to become a farmer or a store owner. They were taught by their elders or passed down knowledge of a family owned business. “Despite periodic disillusionment with the schools, the pervasive belief has been that education defined a more years of schooling is beneficial. It was not always that way. In earlier centuries, and in other societies, people did not ascribe such power to or make such demands on their schools. Instead the family, the workplace, and various social institutions acculturated and trained the young[.]”(The American community college) Schooling today is way more beneficial than in previous generations because now school will teach us things that our parents or grandparents may not know. Knowledge in the fields of math, science and english will always continue in growth, so there is always new things to
“As opposed to generations of the past, high school graduates today are unable to obtain the number of high-paying jobs that were once available.”(Importance of College Education) America used to have a factory-based economy where people could get jobs in an assembly line or construction workers and make good pay off of it. Now that robots have taken most simple jobs in factories around the world, there is a shortage of skilled workers for higher level jobs. Most of these jobs require a 2 or 4 year college education. Even careers such as an artist, singer, professional mime, are easier with a college education in that field. I am not saying that you have to go to college to live a good life, just look at people like Charles Culpeper, he dropped out of high school and is now th owner and CEO of Coca Cola. The reason why college is such a big issue now is because back in the 19th century, colleges were for teacher-training or medical diplomas. People didn’t need to go to college to become a farmer or a store owner. They were taught by their elders or passed down knowledge of a family owned business. “Despite periodic disillusionment with the schools, the pervasive belief has been that education defined a more years of schooling is beneficial. It was not always that way. In earlier centuries, and in other societies, people did not ascribe such power to or make such demands on their schools. Instead the family, the workplace, and various social institutions acculturated and trained the young[.]”(The American community college) Schooling today is way more beneficial than in previous generations because now school will teach us things that our parents or grandparents may not know. Knowledge in the fields of math, science and english will always continue in growth, so there is always new things to