The Burden of Modern Education

College is a growing force in our society today. However, students are jumping into the education pool without much knowledge of what school is capable of. Today, modern education has become more of career training than anything. A bachelor’s degree used to be a highly sought after commodity, but now with thousands of schools, some with close to 50,000 students, the learning pool has become watered down. Now students can enter classes to learn skills that would be learned with on the job training. They spend four years studying construction management, when they could easily just get a construction job for four years and work their way up.
So what does this say about school? It is becoming a waste of time. College was set up as a pursuit of education, a chance to better one’s self and essential become useful to society in many ways. As Hellen Keller once said, “College is no longer a place to go for ideas.” Rather, I suggest that college is become nothing more than a holding cell for students warding off adult hood. College is the new highschool.
Students need to be cautious of what they study, where they study and who they study under. Hopefully the future is brighter for education than it is for those who currently have one.

Originally posted by jdisand1@gmail.com