In an USA Today report, a study found some shocking data about the depth of education in higher education."Nearly half of the nation's undergraduates show almost no gains in learning in their first two years of college, in large part because colleges don't make academics a priority....After two years in college, 45% of students showed no significant gains in learning; after four years, 36% showed little change. Students also spent 50% less time studying compared with students a few decades ago, the research shows."- USA Today
If you've been to a college campus these days you sadly can see how this is very true. Education in general is being push to produced more higher education graduates. Like most government related products lowing standards are a lot easier then increase the difficulty. For when you lower the bar everyone a winner right?
Facts like this are not all that uncommon, studies have shown that students entering the workforce after college are increasingly unprofessional and unprepared for the tasks at hand. People are not raised with the idea that they are responsible for their work, and that the quality and timeliness of their work does effect the outcome. People expect their teachers to hold their hands throughout college, then have their bosses hold their hands throughout the work world. Whatever happened to individual independence, and personal motivation to succeed? I guess holding people accountable and forcing people to think instead of just repeating information is now "Un-America".
Like most things in life time has a habit of fixing our own mistakes. With more students at college graduating in to a world were jobs are fewer and far an between, maybe people will start waking to reality. If not there is always government jobs available.
Like most things in life time has a habit of fixing our own mistakes. With more students at college graduating in to a world were jobs are fewer and far an between, maybe people will start waking to reality. If not there is always government jobs available.
Dude. I've been following your stuff for a while and agree with you more often than not. You've got the right idea here, particularly with this post. Education needs to be more about meaning and value, less about the money.
ReplyDeleteWith as much respect as I can convey in a blog comment, though, you gotta work on the typos, dude. You're coming correct with the message, but I think that message gets interrupted with missing words here today.
Press on regardless.
thanks for the feed back! it really helps me refine my writing, after all i did go to public school my whole life so I'm still working on fixing some gaps in my education.
ReplyDeleteAnother article with a similar story check it out:
ReplyDeletehttp://townhall.com/columnists/JohnStossel/2009/01/28/the_college_scam
No worries, man.
ReplyDeleteInteresting link, there, though I tend to put little stock in anything with mainstream media connection these days. While the education system in this country is in a tatters, it's far more lucrative for the media to call it a complete failure. As the promise of money lures prospective college students deeper in debt, so too does the promise of advertising revenues lure the media to fear-mongering and sensationalism.
There is much that is wrong, but how much effort do we, as society, invest in pointing out problems versus being solutions?
Food for thought. Keep at it.