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Jasmine Glover Stacey Beiber ENG 115 9/10/14

Jasmine Glover

ENG 115

Stacey Beiber

  What Does a College Education Mean to You?

            I remember during senior year, specifically a month before graduation, my older brother probing me with questions of, “so are you excited for college next August?“, “how do you feel about finishing high school?”, “do you know what you’ll want to be for the rest of your life?” Well it’s safe to say that all these questions wracked my brain at night as graduation approached. For such a broad question like this, one simply could not answer over the span of just a few words.  I can say that coming into college, as a first year student was intimidating. I came into college with a plethora of expectations as well as questions, yet undoubtedly with fear. But I can also say that with this fear came hand in hand with enthusiasm of entering a whole new different world.  “You’re not swimming in a pond anymore, you’re with the big fish in the ocean now” is what my brother had told me once. I suppose it stuck with me.

            Unlike high school, college entails so much more to offer. I see now that college gives one opportunity, and knowledge, as well as experience, and teachings. Not to say that high school didn’t give me all these things, but what differentiates the two other than obvious reasons is:  1).Everything is more diversified and widened and 2). Everything pertains to inside the classroom, as well as outside the classroom. A college education stimulates a student through point of view, morals and values, and academics. This generates a well-developed student, educationally and socially, and allows a student to grow more, as they begin to discover who they are. Suffice to say, a college education is more than just lessons, midterms and finals.

            A college education should guarantee challenging, yet achievable academics. Jeffrey Hart, a professor at Dartmouth discusses in his article, “How to Get a College Education” of his experience with incoming freshman and how, “they emerge from their near-nullity of K-12 and stroll into the chaos of Dartmouth curriculum...” College education is classified as a “higher education” this fact alone is what separates what is learnt in grade school, to what is learnt at universities. Education at colleges stimulate the students, which promotes higher thinking. If you were to take a look at a normal college class, at first glance you’d say that the students are being lectured to no end. But what you may fail to see, is the amount of learning the class holds. One major, difference is the educator. I’ve seen that professors at colleges, opposed to teachers at grade school, allow their students to speak their mind. Students are more firm and professors respect each opinion that is given. This quality of the college environment helps develop the students, through their perspective. College is more liberal than grade school.

            Surprisingly, academics also plays a role outside the classroom in every students’ college career. With what we learn in our classrooms, we soon utilize our knowledge in any life problems we may run into. As high school never exposed students to specified learning classes, in college we have a wider range. For example, take medical classes; if a student with a nursing major, were to encounter a situation where medical attention was need, he/she could utilize their knowledge from nursing classes to assist the situation. Another example is through internships. For internships, the student will practice what they’ve learnt from college courses, into a career workplace. The student not only demonstrates their skills and abilities outside of the classroom, they become familiar with their profession that they are pursuing. 

            The great thing about college education, is that it promotes growth in the student, in all aspects. As a “big ocean”, college has more people, which can be a totally different ball game (meaning different from grade school), so it should be safe to say, that academics is not the only challenging feature of college. We grow within the classroom as we begin to be exposed to the “real world.” Because we are expected to socialize and network during class, we grow with learning to adapt to different types of people. The same can be said, when it comes to outside the classroom. As one of the first things I realized during my first week of college, it was that I had to make a bigger effort to socialize with other students. But I had to make a greater effort to socialize during class time. 

            With growth, a college student develops morals and values, questions and ideas, and eventually a foundation they will have built for themselves to create their own self-beliefs, and self-philosophies. As first years, we are told by professors and administrators that the time we spend in college, is the time that we use to “discover ourselves” or “reinvent ourselves.” I do believe that they are speaking truth when we are told this. And while we encounter the different environment that college takes, that we, sooner or later find out who we are, whether it is through “discovery” or having constructed our identity. College education guarantee growth as a person, and as a student.

            As our college career can progress, students begin to develop their views, and beliefs. Our points of view can alter, or expand. Professors engage students in social activities that challenge our views repeatedly. Sometimes we may fail to defend our views, and sometimes we can stand by them. In social science classes like liberal arts or philosophy our ways of thinking is challenged immensely. Vedika Khemani supports that having a “broad, liberal education rich in both technical subjects and humanities” is necessary. Religion courses, for example, can affect a students’ initial perspective. They may use what they learn as a ground for their personal belief, although the point of the religion class was to educate and not convert. “College Makeover” written by S. Georgia Nugent, argues about the “… [College educations’] emphasis on moral development.” Students develop, based on what they are educated with.  A students’ opinion may change through what is learnt in class, because they are more diversely educated

Jasmine Glover

Stacey Beiber

ENG 115

9/10/14

Dear Vedhika Khemani,

                        After reading your essay, “Why a Liberal Arts Education Matters“ I was instantly persuaded to do what. I can honestly say that prior to reading your essay, I was very skeptical about what, yet I had no stand on the subject myself. Similar to what is an 'agnostic' to a Catholic religion—How is thisapplicable?? But I decided to take the time to hear what you were saying, and I was glad that I had decided to. One of a few of the things you said, I agreed with immensely. Some of those were, “In a global world dominated by so-called knowledge workers, the ability to communicate effectively and work well on a team is imperative.” I compared this to the percentage of the ones employed in our nation and I concluded that the percentage of employed to unemployed is higher than the latter. 95.8 to 4.2 (Are you referring to the unemployment rate, which is higher than this). Can you make the connection? The majority of the pie is because of stimulated, "well-rounded” and universally educated hardworking "citizens." Although, you did reference one of Einstein's saying, as the concluding sentence in your essay. “‘Imagination is more important than knowledge. Knowledge is limited; imagination encircles the world. ‘“I wanted to ask why did you preference Einstein, when it is also perceived that Einstein developed depression. With such a crippling disease like that, who promotes and has influenced mathematics in his lifetime, what was your purpose for referencing Einstein? What is the purpose of her essay? What does she think it is important for students to study and why? How do you respond to her ? What more would you like to know that is relevant to her argument?

                                                                With regards,

“ College Makeover “

            See above. Written by S. Georgia Nugent, “ College Makeover “, Nugent magnifies the dilemma of what an education entails. Nugent begins with the denotations of a value of education, from different figures throughout history, who have given an answer—In the summary don’t explain how he writes, but rather his main points. Which most have been different from one another (Sentence fragment). Comparing to the very first, college ( The Academy, in Athens) , Nugent feels that the curriculum should serve only to the culture of it’s time. Nugent argues that the variation of interdisciplinary and academic subjects, create an expanded education for students. Carrying on with the essay, Nugent offers a rebuttal to her argument, through statistics from a survey, taken by faculty. These statistics show that the focus of 90% of faculty was on “thinking critically… and the ability to write effectively.”  The lesser of the amount went to “moral character… and… spiritual development.” Nugent’s response is that the study of these certain objects, do in fact, “ [attain] a degree of self-understanding, …. And a sense of responsibility for civil society.” Nugent concludes that incorporating ethical teachings to education benefits the independent thinking and moral of a student.

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