The Importance Of Education On Higher Education

Over the last five to ten years, college has become a requirement among cultures. Within societies, a degree has become a life defining component one must obtain. This idea that one cannot have a life without a degree, has pressured many young adults into pursuing a higher education, many of which would not have ordinarily chosen that route. There are a number of outside options other than college, such as learning a trade or working ones way up the business ladder, but the overwhelming pressure from society for a young adult to pursue the college degree, has diminished the idea of maintaining a manageable life through those options. For this reason many have turned to crime related jobs that do not rely on one’s education, increasing crime …show more content…
Many find learning to be a difficult task not because they just do not like it, but because some have a learning disability. Society seems to be oblivious to this fact and deems those as useless. Although having a degree will help one be successful at any job, it generates a group of uneducated and unemployed youth who turn to the streets for money. Over the years the trend of a required degree span, crime rates have increased in numbers from five hundred thousand to millions of people. Although crime rates were not low, the trend can possibly be seen as a cause for this increase among other factors. Uneducated youth are branded as useless unless they have a degree, and for some that is not obtainable either because of their living situation and/or learning disability. This brand has made it nearly impossible for most to obtain a job. However, there are options to learn a trade or work up a business ladder but because society sees only a degree as useful, they are most likely not going to reach for that and instead rebel against