Geeting Ready for Prime Time: I Want to Go to College

The advantage of going to college is infinity. I am aware of many opportunities, but I know that university courses have many challenges. Personally, the major problem in this semester is traffic. When I left from here, I had my car; when I attended school for a week I lost my car. I am currently using my daughter's car at least until my daughter gets on. I am praying that I want to make a miracle between now and now, otherwise I know that it is difficult for me to get here when I live in Portsmouth. Since I came here, my house was broken and my notes were stolen.

W. Norton Grubb: If a student understands (and wants) the economic or professional interests of a university, as long as you understand the difficulty of obtaining the time and degree of study, you should attend a university is. They should also be prepared at the university, they should be keen on the intellectual role of the university - General education curriculum, the opportunity to participate in most university knowledge and cultural life, and wider interest There is an opportunity to develop an intelligent person. Otherwise the university may become narrow and utilitarian

Attractive is that Aristotle a few centuries ago suggested that many people of "young or heyday" tend to pursue friendship solely for the practical purpose, simply to meet the needs . When you spend a little time at the college campus or company's workplace, you will see that things never change. Likewise, he wrote: "Those who love for utility, because they are good for themselves, and those who love for happiness, because they are happy," but Aristotle thinks people Written as "useful or fun" is "it is not permanent, it is always changing, so friendship will disappear when the reason of friendship disappears"

The confusion and disagreement about the final product Today, the phrase "university and career preparation" is out of the voices of many people, but it has not been scrutinized much. Self-esteemed liberals - and most educators - I hope everyone can attend college, or just imagine something else. In any case, except for high level abstractions, university preparation and career preparation are not the same thing. Our best high school is preparing most of the best students for most traditional universities, but they ignore other children. Our worst high school did not do anything to anyone.