Purpose of Education

What has happened to our educational system? Have our standards been so systematically lowered over the years that our coddling no longer challenges its student body? We continually struggle as a society to find the medium between addressing the arising issues of the times while pushing forward into the future. In the case of higher academic education, our arising issues seem to sprout from our progressive ambition. Schools of every level, elementary to college, have taken steps to lower their expectations of students in order to create better test score ratios, or to simply pass their students onto the next grade. Education has become politics rather than learning and the actions of our learning facilities serves as proof of this. read more »

In today’s ever changing job market, it is becoming harder and harder for students to be sufficiently prepared once they graduate. Skills learned either do not apply anymore because of technology’s rapid evolution, or there are more skills to be learned that students missed out on. In an effort to move education forward in a new direction, Microsoft designed the School of The Future in Philadelphia, PA. read more »

It seems that today’s college students just can’t win. After getting accepted to college, taking out loans to pay for it, and working hard to graduate, students are dissatisfied with the outcome.

However disenchanted students may feel, they are not alone. And for some recent graduates, graduating into the unknown is the minor problem. Some students are not only graduating into obscurity, but they’re also wondering if staying in America is feasible and if it’s even a possibility. Illegal immigrants graduating from colleges across the country are finding themselves in a whirlwind of the unknown. read more »

Tuition costs in colleges continue to rise even in the midst of this disastrous recession. Colleges don’t seem to be phased by the growing number of students who are graduating from their institutions with massive loads of debt under their arms. This isn’t surprising though. Their business is much less about the transaction of knowledge and more about the accumulation of wealth and prestige. But, maybe this is too harsh of a claim. Perhaps they do aspire to bestow education unto its students. Perhaps the problem is simply the price itself. read more »