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Dr. Myers
ENGL 1301xxxx
Xxxxx xx, 2011
On the Brink
The educational system in the United States teeters on the brink of disparity. At a time when the economy is in its worst state in decades, when students are dropping out of higher education in unprecedented numbers, the system that promised to prepare them has singularly focused on its profits. Institutions of higher learning have focused on their pocketbooks at the risk of abandoning future generations without access to quality education. The younger generations, not unaware of …show more content…
By all accounts, America has always been a nation of invention, its citizens playing integral roles in recent vital technological and industrial developments. Involving a greater amount of learned workers in their respective trades would bring new, creative ways to streamline processes to aging industries. Not only would the influx of new collegiate graduates augment current procedures and technologies, but having extra help would alleviate some of the strain that workers of certain industries face daily. Currently, the United States stands at a crossroads, the creative boost brought by fresh minds has the power to pull this nation into a new …show more content…
Collegiate education has grown to become more of an expensive means to an end and less about the opportunity for instruction and mentoring that it has traditionally represented. Fueled by this negative aura surrounding modern schooling, many high school graduates are cultivated with an apathetic cynicism of the system before them. However, removing the focus on profits by providing funding for the first two years of college education for these graduates would alleviate the dark clout that overshadows the
Dr. Myers
ENGL 1301xxxx
Xxxxx xx, 2011
On the Brink
The educational system in the United States teeters on the brink of disparity. At a time when the economy is in its worst state in decades, when students are dropping out of higher education in unprecedented numbers, the system that promised to prepare them has singularly focused on its profits. Institutions of higher learning have focused on their pocketbooks at the risk of abandoning future generations without access to quality education. The younger generations, not unaware of …show more content…
By all accounts, America has always been a nation of invention, its citizens playing integral roles in recent vital technological and industrial developments. Involving a greater amount of learned workers in their respective trades would bring new, creative ways to streamline processes to aging industries. Not only would the influx of new collegiate graduates augment current procedures and technologies, but having extra help would alleviate some of the strain that workers of certain industries face daily. Currently, the United States stands at a crossroads, the creative boost brought by fresh minds has the power to pull this nation into a new …show more content…
Collegiate education has grown to become more of an expensive means to an end and less about the opportunity for instruction and mentoring that it has traditionally represented. Fueled by this negative aura surrounding modern schooling, many high school graduates are cultivated with an apathetic cynicism of the system before them. However, removing the focus on profits by providing funding for the first two years of college education for these graduates would alleviate the dark clout that overshadows the