In the article “College is not a commodity. Stop treating it like one” Hunter Rawlings points out that a college education is not a commodity such as a television or a car, but rather an awakening of a human being that students need to take an active role in order to receive its complete value. Throughout this article Rawlings gives several examples that although many believe that a college education is simply commodity that student purchase from colleges, it is actually much more than that. Instead college is a meeting of educators and students in which both need to take an active role for its full value to be obtained. Through college, students do not simply learn how to make more money in their future careers, but how to actively use their
