Alfred Lubrano How College Corrupts

College is the next stepping stone to better or advance ones social standing in life, whether it is moving from a blue collar lifestyle to white collar, or to continue to further their career path. However, it comes with an “unavoidable result.” Alfred Lubrano discusses this “unavoidable result” in his text “The Shock of Education: How College Corrupts.” Lubrano discusses the topic of how furthering ones education opens more possibilities but at the same time distances those held most dearly. He explains that the more knowledge gained, the bigger the gap caused between friends and family due to differences in levels of knowledge. That distance is greatly increase if one comes from a poorer region where blue collar workers are the social norm. For instance, conversations within lower class households come off more militaristic due to the fact that all opinions are “dictated by group consensus,” where what the class says is so. Juxtaposed to the middle class household where they are talked to as adults.. Lubrano does not try to dissuade one from attending college, he simply shines a light onto a hidden matter that is not discussed when continuing ones education. Lubrano hits the nail on the head about the distance gained when continuing ones education with friends and family, but does not consider the fact about that distance being magnified as a first generation American. One of Alfred Lubrano’s main points was how college distanced childhood friends as well as loved ones. He describes how he learned to “self-censor” himself and only discussed “general stuff,” because it was undiscerning to his father, a blue collar working man. Not to mention that listening to a freshman discuss the topics of race, equality, or politics, was as unsettling as “riding in a car with a new driver.” In fact, Lubrano’s professor himself told his class not to discuss what they have learned in class, Marxist theory, because it would “mess up the holiday.” Under those circumstances, one