Why has learning become so important? Students go through various years of learning and studying to get an education and ultimately have a good career. To reach the goal of earning a career, students must pass from one grade level to the next level of learning until they graduate. As students spend year after year in school, they are supposed to take in the new knowledge and build upon what was learned on previous years. But after graduation. what happens to the countless years of learning? The only thing left to do is to use the knowledge that was learned and use it for the better good of the community. College should help students understand that their career not only will determine the size of their paycheck, but more importantly, exercise …show more content…
The purpose of learning is to prepare people for the future and challenge their views on real world issues; however, it is difficult to get a point across when students are easily offended and constantly complaining. If students are constantly offended by what professors must say, then they are not open to different perceptions and cannot learn from their misconception of ideas. In the article “Trigger Warnings” by Kathleen Parker, the author uncovers the idea that today’s colleges allow students to avoid being exposed to certain topics or issues because students may be offended and the ideas presented do not fall under their beliefs. Parker asserts that “colleges and universities often boast of their diversity in terms of race, sex, gender or sexual orientation, but too often they fail to encourage diversity of thought” (Parker). Without the diversity of thought, students cannot grow from their delusional ideas of real world issues and avoid learning imperative ideas that challenge their own. Parker implies that colleges must not prevent students from learning different perceptions of issues when she quotes the Purdue University that “it is not the proper role of the university to attempt to shield individuals from ideas and opinions they find unwelcome, disagreeable, or even deeply offensive” (Parker). By stating this, the author …show more content…
However, there is a flaw in Freire’s argument. He forgets to approach how the impoverished and minorities could ever achieve learning in an institution where they would be able to get their own point of views across to the professors. Brazilian author Marcella Althaus-Reid wrote “Education for Liberation” an article in which she argues on the advancement of instructive freedom, a style of Christian training, which includes communicating with teachers and professors as a feature of a basic mindfulness prepare. She identifies that the poor people and minimized of the social orders ought to figure out how to cross examine the system of mistreatment. She considers and examines the viewpoints of the poor by exposing the idea that having the opportunity to learn in where students and teachers can talk to one another and learn from each other, is more important than being able to learn. According to Althaus-Reid in her article “Education for Liberation,” Freire developed the idea of 'education for liberation' which includes students communicating with their teachers and professors as part of a process in which students and teachers become aware of what was the problem. The place where impoverished and disregarded students should focus is that of integrating a system where
College can’t teach us everything’s. For example college can’t give us the job experience, only give us the education of the knowledge, and I believe their all lot thing need to be learn in the society. Many people who get a college degree but can’t find a job, which mean they waste there youth and their parent’s money to support their child go to college, and even can’t find a job after a college
Robert Leamnson’s essay “Learning (Your First Job)” effectively proposes the importance of learning by suggesting ways of making notes, studying, and doing assignments. Leamnson cannot stress it enough, how learning will not be accomplished unless you want to do it. If you do not have the want of learning then there is no point in doing it. High school education is so much different than your post-secondary education. The material that is being learned in the college classes is materials that will be useful for your later career. This essay has given me a better understanding of to how and why I should take college classes
College is full of new experiences, new people, and new communities, and many universities encourage the exchange of new ideas and diversity among students. This year, the University of Chicago sent out a letter to all of its incoming freshmen informing them that in keeping with their beliefs of freedom of expression and healthy discussion and debate, the school would not provide “safe spaces” or “trigger warnings”. Senior Sophie Downes found this letter to be misleading in many ways, including in the definitions of safe spaces and trigger warnings, as well as the issues it was addressing. Downes claims that the letter was misrepresenting the school, but also was using the letter as a sort
Arizona State University (2005), stated humans have learned to be prejudiced “through evolution as an adaptive response to protect ourselves from danger”. However, this instinct goes wrong because a majority of people are unable to see past prejudices and develop better understandings of their environments. This often results in harmful acts between different groups and would suggest that it must be controlled if not eliminated. Based on Rauch's thinking however, prejudice and its developments should not be removed from public environments like the university campus because it is necessary to have true intellectual pluralism based on unfiltered human thoughts. The question remains of whether the benefits of intellectual pluralism have to come at the cost of allowing harmful acts of prejudice to exist. In the university setting, the answer is no. So long as universities work to channel prejudice as a means of advancing knowledge the way Rauch believes it should, the negative developments of prejudice that people attempt to eradicate would be kept to a
According to The Coddling of the American Mind, trigger warnings and microaggressions confine professors’ and well-educated adults’ unalienable right of speech; furthermore, they can impact one’s health. Protecting rights have a unison consensus; the authors unite them and the audience together to persuade the well-educated adults to protest the use of trigger warnings and microaggressions. While concluding that vindictive protectiveness is the reason for trigger warnings and microaggressions Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt state, “A campus culture devoted to policing speech and punishing speakers is likely to engender patterns of thought that are surprisingly similar to those long identified by cognitive behavioral therapists as causes of depression and anxiety.” (45) The word “policing” holds a negative connotation implying regulation, and no one wants their first amendment right of free speech stolen from them. Also the idea that trigger warnings and microaggressions may lead to depression and anxiety gives more logical reasoning to end trigger warnings and microaggressions in higher level education. When the authors specify the change that colleges should make, Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt write their idea of the purpose of college, “Rather than
Based on Three Reasons College Still Matters, there are three main reasons why a college education is so important. From an economical standpoint, an education is most of the time needed to earn enough money to live comfortably. Attending and completing college provides a possibility for future economic stability. Within a highly competitive workforce a college degree can put a foot in the door to a job of a person’s choice. Statistics show that people who obtain a bachelor’s degree or higher get paid more than those who do not obtain one. Many question the worth of a college degree because of how expensive it is, though some say that the money spent is an investment on a person’s future. One can say that the worth of a college education is within the eye of the beholder. Many q...
Although trigger warnings sound like a harmless idea to many, there is an extreme controversy about whether or not they should be used in college lectures. Many college professors have conflicting views about trigger warnings; some agree on using them while others are against it. This debate topic is particularly intriguing in Kate Manne’s article in the New York Times titled, “Why I Use Trigger
In recent years, a rise in verbal abuse and violence directed at people of color, lesbians, and gay men, and other historically persecuted groups has plagued the United States. Among the settings of these expressions of intolerance are college and university campuses, where bias incidents have occurred sporadically since the mid-1980's. Outrage, indignation and demands for change are the responses to these incidents - understandably, given the lack of racial and social diversity among students, faculty and administrators on most campuses. Many universities, under pressure to respond to the concerns of those who are the objects of hate, have adopted codes or olicies prhibiting speech that offends any group based on race gender, ethnicity, religion or sexual orientation. That's the wrong response, well-meaning or not. The First Amendment to the United States Constitution protects speech no matter how offensive its content.
As the economy evolves and the job market continues to get more competitive, it’s becoming harder to have a successful career without some kind of college degree. This creates a belief in many young students that college actually is a commodity, something they must have in order to have a good life. There’s many different factors that influence this mindset, high schools must push the importance of the student’s willingness and drive to further their education. College isn’t just a gateway to jobs, but it is an opportunity to increase knowledge and stretch and challenge the student which in return makes them a more rounded adult and provides them with skills they might lack prior to
The question of whether or not college students have become too “sensitive” is one that is currently being debated in the United States. This issue, which has seemed to increase in the past few years, is one that has angered many due to the fact that what this world needs is straight-forward commentary. In “The Coddling of the American Mind,” by Greg Lukianoff and Jonathan Haidt, the issue of college students being too “coddled” is discussed in many different aspects. Similarly, an article published by Scott Stump in Today Parents shows an example of how the effect of political correctness on these students has caused a realization that we are in dire need of some desensitizing. Validating one another, these two articles prove that the coddling
Colleges and universities control their faculties and students’ actions by shaming and criticizing their faculties and students on social media when the faculty’s or student’s actions cause distresses to other college students. They also control their faculties’ or students’ actions by firing the faculty or suspending the student. In an article that is posted on the website Newsweek, Nina Burleigh states that “American college campuses are starting to resemble George Orwell’s Oceania with its Thought Police, or East Germany under the Stasi. College newspapers have been muzzled and trashed, and students are disciplined or suspended for “hate speech,” while exponentially more are being shamed and silenced on social media by their peers. Professors quake at the possibility of accidentally offending any student and are rethinking syllabi and restricting class discussions to only the most anodyne topics.” The idea American colleges and universities are compared to the Stasi, the secret police of East Germany, or a thought police shows how dangerous and restrictive college campuses have become. This quote also cites the fact colleges have tried to censor their own newspaper as one of the examples how dangerous campuses have become. The fact that colleges try to censor their own newspaper and to intimidate their professors is troubling because this fact indicates that American colleges and
” The world doesn’t care about your feelings or beliefs, people think they are right no matter what and students will have to face hateful, discriminating, sexual words no matter where they go. So, college is there to prepare them, by helping them develop their beliefs and opinions on topics, not censoring them. Trigger warnings cause the student’s to have thin skin and “could theoretically lead to discrimination in the job market, with young people passed over in favor of (perceived tougher older people). (Whitley 2)” Isn’t discrimination what society is trying to prevent. If trigger warnings become implemented at a young age, they will grow up to think with their emotions causing them to have thin skin and not be able to handle certain situations that could arise in the workforce. Which could cause some to be unemployed and to still have a huge load of college debt.
And since we are, so it 's worth going to college? Obviously, the answer is yes. No college, no university, our knowledge of the world would be lower and therefore, our ability to develop ourselves more limited. Knowledge is power, as is usual said. And we are so soon useful, as soon as you have the title of which are already engineers, architects or doctors, we stop. It is what is called a successful strategy, as opposed to maximizing strategies. By successful I mean that when we reach a sufficient level, satisfying, for some work left to be formed and had to work. But one of the greatest teachings that make you go to college is confidence in yourself, think about college as the next stage towards the real world. Living together with colleagues the majority of the time but with your own schedule, live alone, set your own schedule, responsible for your own tasks, are all things that help you prepare for adulthood within the relatively lenient campus atmosphere. If we worked so maximizing, would not stop studying when enough, would stop when we got to the best of our ability. And utilitarianism, as we are seeing bitterly, is only a short-term strategy valid. If we focus only on minimum cover, do not get very far. In the long run, it 's good idea to be maximizing. College is much more than spend time in the classroom working to obtain a diploma or just good grades. In the process, meet new people that will become very important for
College education goes about the way to an effective future for people who are not kidding with it. Currently, a college education has turned in the base necessity in securing a job in different companies and although some people might think college is not worth the debt, in a long run it actually is.
He looks at educational philosophy in a wider sense of oppressor and the oppressed. In 1946, Freire was appointed director of the Department of Education and Culture of the Social Service in the state of Pernambuco, working with the destitute and illiterate, and it was here that he was first able properly to exercise his theories. After he was appointed director of the Department of Cultural Extension of Recife University, his first project (in Brazil) resulted in the teaching of 300 illiterate sugarcane workers to read and write after only an astonishing forty-five days.