I realize that we do come to school, in order to get educated. But is it worth the thousands and thousands per semester? I think not. However, it is hard to put a price on knowledge.
The tuition varies very much with every university, but the average student usually amasses about $30, 000 in student loans when they take their first steps out of university and into the real world. How can we choose to educate ourselves through debt - having the knowledge that once we are done, this overwhelming wall of debt will outright smother you?
Education at university is very useful. People come and go, leaving with pieces of papers in their hands. They range from taking a Bachelor of Science to Bachelor of Business Administration. To get a bachelors, however, does not guarantee you a job. In the past, that was very much true, when it seemed like only the rich went to school. In this century, enrollment has skyrocketed at almost every university. More people are walking around with degrees and diplomas. Distance learning has also gained major popularity, offering the ease of education without a campus.
Is it really worth getting educated before going into the workforce? Or should we gain enough experience and return to expand upon them?
Is education a process of getting knowledge/information? I don't think so. Plenty of information is available almost everywhere you look, so time would better be used in searching out the information if that is what education seeks to provide. There is a connection between education and knowledge, but I don't think it is the mere acquisition that is the point.
ReplyDeleteLikewise, I don't believe the point of education is to gain skills; for the most part, skills would be better learned on the job. Again there is a connection between education and skills, but I don't think acquisition is the point.
I think education is about what you learn that is not information, what you learn that has little to do with what you need to make a living. I think education is pointed at students' getting what they need to make a life (not just an income). How and whether our current education systems actually are doing this is an open question (and it needs to be answered by students, together with teachers and administration). Democracy works, when there are sincere people who want to see real progress. It remains to be seen whether the situation today in Egypt will provide us a good example, but I think I am as hopeful concerning the youth of this world as I have been in a long while because of what seems to be happening among the youth in Egypt.