Is Higher Education Worth the Price?
Colleges are not worth the price. Bachelor's degrees are required for most jobs. However, I feel that the quantity is not worth the quality of education that is given. As stated in Are Colleges Worth the Price? authors Andrew Hacker and Claudia Dreifus mention, colleges "have lost track of their basic mission to challenge the minds of young people." Students' minds are not being challenged as much as they should be. There is really no improvement on their critical thinking from high school to college. I agree with the statement from them that says "higher education has become a colossus-a $420 billion industry." Instead of focusing on the criteria that is being taught, college has become a business. It is more about having to go back and forth with financial aid to figure out how to afford an education. Colleges are not worth the price. Bachelor's degrees are required for most jobs. However, I feel that the quantity is not worth the quality o...