Essay On Education Is Necessary In College

How necessary is college for an aspiring? “Congratulations Jahi, you just received the Incentive Awards Scholarship,” my high school counselor said to me. The Incentive Awards Program is designed to award scholarships, valued at $100,000, to students who excel in their academic course load, are active in their respective community, and demonstrates high self-efficacy. At this moment, on one hand I was grateful to find out that I just received a scholarship, worth $100,000, that would pay for my education for the next 4 years; however on the other, I was conflicted because college was not something I planned to pursue. When I was in 11th grade, I launched CurbAttendant, a moving & junk removal company. Through developing this business, I …show more content…
al 22). This study concludes, “entrepreneurial returns to education suggests that it is sizeable at least for some entrepreneurs” (Kolstad et. al 22). These findings are contrary of what was stated from Nichols, that entrepreneur success depended on mostly on personality traits, and found that education does play a role. Although this study found that education matters, the overall study did not contain Americans but Malawians, people native to an African country, and thus it cannot automatically be concluded that education is viable to Americans entrepreneurs because Malawi culture is much different from America. Moreover, the overall credibility of the article was shot down when the author stated, “the study may have contained biasness because there was a substantial drop in the number of observations due to missing data for some of the variables.” Nether less, this study does confirm that education does play some type of role in entrepreneurship because it helps make one make more informed