A college education is an important stepping stone in many students lives. What is a college education though, and how do you get one? In the article “How to Get a College Education” Jeffrey Hart, Professor at Dartmouth University, he argues his own opinion on the experience and struggle of today's students working to achieve an education after high school. He also goes on to talk about what he believes should be the goal of a further education. No only are students not being taught basic and necessary skills needed to excel in life they are also not learning about their culture and history. On top of this, Freshman aren’t getting the help they need enrolling in classes that will best benefit them for their future career paths. Overall Hart teaches his readers about the need for students to receive a better college education.
Hart shares with his readers an experience that he had with an undergraduate class. He assigned them the Allan Bloom’s, “ The Closing of the American Mind.” book. Bloom’s message in the book was, that students were ignorant, believing in clichés. That their education thus far had been nothing, and that what they were about to receive from college would not be much better. Hart quizzed his twenty five Ivy League students, asking them if they knew about the Mayflower Compact,, John Locke, James Madison, Magna Carta, The Spanish …show more content…
College’s need to do a better job of teaching life skills, culture, and history. The staff also needs to be more assertive with the freshman students and better guide them in their class and career choices. Students need to take the basic classes so they can become citizens and function and prosper in society. This issue seems to hold true today and it is our turn as students, teachers, and outsiders to stand up and help make the education system stronger and better for the next generation of prospering
Hart shares with his readers an experience that he had with an undergraduate class. He assigned them the Allan Bloom’s, “ The Closing of the American Mind.” book. Bloom’s message in the book was, that students were ignorant, believing in clichés. That their education thus far had been nothing, and that what they were about to receive from college would not be much better. Hart quizzed his twenty five Ivy League students, asking them if they knew about the Mayflower Compact,, John Locke, James Madison, Magna Carta, The Spanish …show more content…
College’s need to do a better job of teaching life skills, culture, and history. The staff also needs to be more assertive with the freshman students and better guide them in their class and career choices. Students need to take the basic classes so they can become citizens and function and prosper in society. This issue seems to hold true today and it is our turn as students, teachers, and outsiders to stand up and help make the education system stronger and better for the next generation of prospering