College Education System

Supporters of American tertiary education view the system as a flagship model, the crème de la crème, but I beg to differ. With ever increasing tuition costs, time wasting core curriculums, and the diminishing quality of education given, the American tertiary educational system should be seen as faulty. As Thomas Jefferson once said, “those talents which nature has sown as liberally among the poor as the rich, but which perish without use, if not sought for and cultivated.” Jefferson believed that the American educational system should be accessible to all social classes and should help enhance the chances of succeeding for those belonging to the lower class. Sadly, the Jeffersonian way of thinking has been discarded by the American educational system. Now more than ever, college has become primarily accessible by the wealthy and an unreachable dream of the needy. Attending an American university can …show more content…
With most colleges adopting a strict core curriculum containing classes that most would deem unnecessary, the amount of time an average student will take to earn a diploma is increasing dramatically. According to Tamar Lewin from the New York Times, “The reality is that our system of higher education costs too much, takes too long and graduates too few.” The core curriculum is held accountable for this. Students are too busy satisfying core curriculums instead of satisfying requirements needed to complete their intended major, which causes unnecessary extra semesters that will not help the student prosper in her intended field. The whole ideology of attending college is to gain a complete understanding of your intended field and to ready your self for a professional life style, the core curriculum fails to accomplish this and instead of helping the student achieve graduation, all it does is cost them their time and money along with slowing them