Growing up learning English as a second language was difficult. Learning grammar and sentence structure in English is the opposite of what I’m used to before. So when I’m given an assignment in Literature I tends to dread it. As Prose argues in “I Know Why The Caged Bird Cannot Read". That teachers are teaching life lessons through novels, but not the novel themselves.
Schools tends to required students reading books that doesn’t teach them about life. …show more content…
They do not question it, just believe that college is the best option and it is what’s expected of them. Those do not go to college get judged. That there aren’t enough jobs for them without a degree. But, yet Bird stated “disillusioned graduates are learning that it can no longer absorb an army of trained twenty-two-year-olds, either.” As students learn while in college is that. College doesn’t teach you anything vocationally useful, just how students can be a better person. They realize that college is not what they want to do with their time. Bird interviewed professors and students across the nation to find out. That most students said that college only taught them to create goals in life. College is not for everyone. Students only go to college because they 're confused. And society as an authority figure tell them they have to. She states “You don 't have to go to college to learn about the great ideas of Western man. If you want to learn about Milton, or Camus, or even Margaret Mead, you can find them. In paperback. In the library.” A person can learn everything without having to go to college. It’s the matter of choice. The ones that actually stay in dorms do not live a comfortable life. It’s noisy, crowed and