Heck No You Shouldn T Go Summary

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University education and admission to university is not how it was fifty years ago. Now a days, going to university is a normal occurrence in people’s life and not only a select few attend. The article, “Universities for the 21st century” written by Clive Keen and Ken Coates, talks about the different ways that Universities have changed over the years, and how it is the university and professors who need to change their approaches to deal with the implications of “mass university education” (Keen, 2006). In contrast, the article “Heck no, you shouldn’t go” by Andrew Park comments on the article written by Keen and Coates, but takes the stand that it’s not the universities issues if students don’t succeed, but the fact that some students should not be there in the first place. Both articles are important because they both deal with a topic in debate, which is …show more content…

He believes that some students should be turned away and not given the chance to attend university as sending students who are unprepared to university is just a setup for failure. He states, “Poor preparation, disengagement and laziness among the minorities I have identified can account for much of the decline in average standards among incoming students.” (Parks, 2007) He comes across as no one is prepared for university and are all there for the wrong reasons. He talks about three different groups of people who attend university for either the wrong reasons, or shouldn’t attend at all : the group that lacks intellectual curiosity, the group that attend class just to get a grade, and the group that are enthusiastic and work hard, but still under preform. (Parks, 2007) Parks believes that “we should counsel students far more carefully before they enter university and, when necessary, turn them away for their –and our –own good.”(Parks,

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