WHAT A COLLEGE EDUCATION BUYS

WHAT A COLLEGE EDUCATION BUYS Christopher Caldwell, the author of “WHAT A COLLEGE EDUCATION BUYS” presents his idea on college education of a 4-year college degree in American. The author’s assertion that college degree is not for everyone; it is something superb and looks like prime but it does not guarantee graduates’ practical productivity and usefulness in the particular professions or fields. Also, he assertion includes that nowadays college education has been increasing because of its growth in demands and increased popularity. Thus, is it worthwhile for parents to place a lot of raw financial chunk on the children’s college degrees, while it does not even benefit graduates as it did before? The author argues about how colleges try too hard in accommodating needs of industry and big firm in order to provide “service that students seek for-which is finding a job after graduation”. This effort actually prevents colleges from fundamental mission which is expanding scientific and philosophical knowledge to enhance human virtues and dignity by answering curiosity. Even though the relationship among those three parties rolls, each party sacrifices in time and energy. Furthermore, despite of these sacrifices, the final customer, or the hiring business has not drawn a clear line of what they are looking for and what skills they really need but only requires a degree in hiring new employees. In addition, even though colleges’ put a lot of efforts in training student, but they can’t perfectly train students to meet the need of business world, which is unclear. Therefore, the traditional benefits from college education have been shifted to contemporary gains. Colleges train student accordingly, and try to meet the needs of both student and industries. Not only for competition reason, but also for additional life lesson, colleges can provide many services to student bodies. College and universities are the academic places where notion starts and