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Essay on Should Everyone Go to University

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Ariel
No.214158
5th November,2012
Benjamin Collins

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The thesis of this article is that it is wrong to push everyone to university education, which though have benefits for individual and society. It would cause underemployment and dashed expectations.
I)

According Tomas Friedman, American would like to focus more on quantity rather than quality comparing with Canadian.

II)

Higher education is a worthy personal investment.

III) Not just individual but also the whole society can benefit from university education. IV) Because of so many advantages of education, it is necessary to send as many people as possible to school according to Thomas Friedman. …show more content…

Then he noted that your major in university would be a crucial factor for everyone’s future life, which remain me of myself. I studied marketing in university where 80% students learn about economy. After graduated from university, I found it is hard for me to find a satisfying job. That might because there are so many people just like me compete for limited position.
And also the author demonstrated that as the employers consider a credential as a important signal for every student, more people are eager for bachelor’s degree which becomes more common. That’s true. In this case, people have to go to graduate or professional school to make them outstanding among the crowd, which may be unnecessarily. There’re many examples like this.
Students go to university just because of the certificate, which could prove them complete university even they didn’t do well in school, while others who are worthy of university have to distinguish themselves by achieving a higher degree which is a kind a waste of time.
We cannot put blame it on the employers only. “More is better” is a wrong idea” for university education. It is necessary for society to pay more attention to how to help fund it rather than fuelling an educational arms race.

Summary
Andrew Potter’s article :Should everyone go to university” published in Maclean’s magazine in November 13,2006 said that as an education agenda, “More is

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