A Critical Analysis Of Peter Sacks And Higher Education

Community colleges and universities all belong to higher education, but actually they do not have the same requirements for their students. Peter Sacks is a college teacher. With Sacks’ teaching experiences, he believes that “nobody in the system had much of a stake in shoring up educational standards” which shows his dissatisfied about the current education system. Sacks thinks higher education should only be provided to students who can do excellent job on studying. However, only a few universities hold their applicants to this high requirement. Indeed, the phenomenon that Sacks finds is correct, many community colleges and universities have low requirements for students, but Sacks does not see the good part of this low requirements. If higher education includes different requirements, more people will be able to accept better education than high school, and this will be helpful for themselves and society.
Sacks points that most of students in other colleges and universities are not taking responsibility for themselves. One of Sacks’ writing class students has told him that “if I

Although higher education is devalued, people still learn more things than high school. We can think about the reason of the Great Depression, which Sacks mentions in his argument. The Great Depression was because of a faulty operation of economics, and the similar operation happened in many companies. This operation was wrong not because companies did not know how to make money. It was because these companies lacked basic knowledge on other relative area. Higher education will teach students these basic rules, and for better students, they will go to better universities and learn more specific knowledge. In this way, government can make sure that people in every company will make the correct operation, so that country can avoid the disaster in the future. As a result, both students and the country get benefits from higher