Is Higher Education Worth The Price?

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. This week’s module is based on the main question which is also the title of the lesson, Is Higher Education Worth The Price? To answer this question, I can conclude that it is not worth the price to receive higher education. In this case, what is described as “higher” would be how big league and popular universities, colleges, and institutions are. As mainly discussed in the assigned articles, it is evident how people would pay extra dollars just for the name, when that same money can get you the same,  if not more of what you pay for. This mindset of basing your decision on reputation and branding rather than focusing on the components of your studies and how well they can benefit them is becoming highly altered in today's society. The article Are Colleges Worth the Price of Admission? written by Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus, touches base on how big league, popular, and high demand universities and institutions should rethink their priorities. It is advised that money should not be a major factor when it comes to obtaining life-changing education. The authors point out that the idea of teaching, learning, and interpretation has been modified through the eyes of governmental order and money. Due to this it has generated a shaded window, a blindness to the real basis and intention of having a college curriculum. Many examples of universities explained throughout the article such as Evergreen State College, Berea College, Arizona State University etc. create personalized and well-thought out curriculums and programs undergraduates can commit to- focusing on their studies. Their purpose is to change the ideal norm on what matters most in education, which over the course of generations, has been heavily altered. What can be concluded is that money is simply not the answer, let alone not within the same equation to success. In David Wallace’s speech the Kenyon Commencement Speech it constructs deliberately and vaguely customizing oneself's thoughts and interpretations through day to day life. Or in this case living “day in and day out” Wallace provides many familiaristic scenarios such as going to the market during rush hour after a long and tedious day at work, implementing the thoughts that would naturally come into play. The Ivory Tower documentary talks about the priorital factors, slowly circulating around the world of money, which leads to the bottomless pit of stress. Scholars are becoming more and more deprived and brainwashed of what really is supposed to matter. All students, undergraduate, graduate, are all dealing with the same problem. What is also discussed is how the government system should re-evaluate their funding to institutes and universities. The documentary opens up both the expected and unexpected points of college debt and college financial opportunities. It provided different perspectives, different point of views from different people who have experienced the same misconduct, the same problem of attempting to trial and error money and financial debt in regards to obtaining education. The last article The New Liberal Arts written by Snsaford J Ungar, praises the progression and personal enhancing of liberal arts. Subjects in the realism of technology, math, and science, all go hand in hand with the progression of society, whilst liberal arts students supposedly being kicked in the dust. When in reality the study of liberal sets stones of progression and enhancements in communication and literature. The art of learning how to communicate and understand different languages, it's more of a common-sense necessity to have in the real world. Taking “shortcuts'' will only get you so far, and soon you will be back at square one. It is important, let alone vital, to be a part of your studies and career. Conclusion from the specifics of each assigned resource we had to read and discuss in our groups, what my group in particular came up with we decided to create a visual aid along with a one page explanation describing the components of our poster. We concluded that people who choose to follow their education careers and goals, can create their own path without college. Four years of book fees, time consuming lectures, and stress building exams, we ask if it is worth it. Lastly we must challenge our minds going beyond our limits. With these takeaways, my group and I can agree that it is indeed not worth it to pay mind-bollegeing prices for a piece of paper that terminates our knowledge  capability and capacities. 

Works Cited:

Dreifus, Andrew Hacker;Claudia. Higher Education?: How Colleges Are Wasting Our Money and Failing Our Kids---and What We Can Do About It by Andrew Hacker (2010–08-03). Times Books, 1872.

Graff, Gerald, et al. “They Say / I Say”: The Moves That Matter in Academic Writing, with Readings (Third Edition). Third, W. W. Norton & Company, 2015.

Wallace, David Foster. This Is Water: Some Thoughts, Delivered on a Significant Occasion, about Living a Compassionate Life. 1st ed., Little, Brown and Company, 2009.

Samuel Goldwyn Films presents in association with Participant Media and  Paramount Home Media Distribution ; a CNN Films production ; produced by Josh Braun, Andrew Rossi ; directed by Andrew Rossi. Ivory Tower. Hollywood, California :Paramount, 2014.