Dick Armey Summary

Summary:
The author, Dick Armey, in this article suggests that there should be desperate measures to regulate the system at Texas universities. According to Armey, the universities are more focused on the complacencies of the faculty instead of the students that has potential. Armey sides with the undertaking of Governor Rick Perry’s education reform, which states that Texas’ education has gone off track and changes must be enforced. The University of Texas is pronounced the third largest endowment in the country, but falls into 47th for best academics. Not only the need for higher education has raised concerns but tuition is too. Tuition has gone up every year by 9.8 percent since 1994, which many families are stressing to provide that
Every day I would pass my college to see the same construction that has been going for quite a while, and I wonder if that’s the reason the tuition keep going up. Not only that I am struggling to pay my tuition, I cannot handle the textbook changing every year or even semesters. Also, I believe that it is not to anyone’s concern that the textbooks are costing students a fortune. Armey states that the main focus should be about the students and I agree highly. But I do not believe the students have the main floor as they should. Half of the classes that I have taken so far, the professors do not live up to their end. I often wonder to myself where my money was going towards. I come across professors who do not want to be in the classroom or want your input about the topic of that day rather than wanting to leave. I don’t mind cutting class short but I would like to be taught properly and understand what they are rushing through. And, sometimes people do not that the time to stay after to get tutorials due to family, work, or personal issues. I do believe higher education should be enforced. It would challenge not only the students but the professors too. So, students can focus more and learn more, while professors are actually being paid