Jeffrey Selingo's Model Analysis

Education is the foundation of our world, and it is extremely important as it builds the careers that run our daily lives. Since education is so important and critical to how our world runs, it is important that education is productive in helping students learn necessary skills to help them be successful. Baldisare Castiglione’s Book of the Courtier, Jeffrey Selingo’s Book College (Un)bound, and Southern Virginia University offer three different models of education. Of the three models the best model would be Jeffrey Selingo’s. This model focuses on helping students find the best major that will help you be successful in the work force, balance your passion and basic skills, and addresses errors education may be unaware of.

Jeffrey Selingo’s

Castiglione’s focus is simply on becoming the perfect courtier, whereas Selingo’s model is to become more successful in the workforce by the education an individual has received. One way he shows the desire for a courtier to be perfect is, he wishes for the courtier to look nonchalant: “Cause all who are watching them to believe that they are almost incapable of making a mistake,” (Castiglione, pp. 44) Castiglione sees this as important in order for the public to listen. However, Jefferey Selingo expresses the need for students to fail: “Many academics believe students have lost the ability to be creative- to learn through doing, to learn through failing, to learn through having fun.” (Selingo, pp.154) Failing, according to Selingo, allows students to access creativity by being able to take risks, however, without failure students lose this ability that is extremely important in the workplace. There are some commonalities among Selingo’s and Castiglione’s models. Both authors advise the learner to seek

Selingo addresses that liberal art majors are highly valued by business leaders: “Palmisano and Lafley to advocate hiring people with liberal arts degrees,” (Selingo, pp. 156) Southern Virginia University, a liberal arts school, would find large amounts of success in this idea, as they report a large percentage of their college graduates successfully launching into careers: “93% of job-seeking students were placed in full-time employment within one month of graduation.” (Southern Virginia University) Yet, the possibility of this state being entirely accurate is questionable. Selingo addresses his audience to exercise caution of this information, as it can be twisted: “publicizing the amazingly high percentage of their graduates with jobs, including, though may not may tis evident, those working the coffee line at Starbucks.” (Selingo, pp. 157) While Southern Virginia University shows high success rates in their graduates in the workforce, Selingo points out that this information could not be exactly the outcomes as expected.

Jeffrey Selingo’s model of education fits me best because it focuses is more on what classes I should be taking in order to help me be successful in a career I already planning to go into rather than spending time on classes, that are not necessarily going to help me in my chosen path. It also encourages to study abroad to learn about cultures