Is college really for everyone?
As we are in high school we are pushed to the idea that in order to be successful in life we have to go to college. The “consequences” would be getting a low paying job and be living “check to check”. The whole point of high school is to encourage us to strive for a higher education, going to a four-year liberal arts institution and spend a huge amount of money. There are many people that their main reason for attending college is for the opportunity of a better job and if that is the reasons they are attending, well it would be better if they not go at all. College is an opportunity for people to expand their horizons intellectually and not be oblivious to their surroundings. Many spend their whole teenage life preparing themselves to compete for a place in universities, they know what’s their goal in life is and their plan to achieve it. Others decide to go through a different paths either; taking a year off after high school, going straight into the work field, others still decide to still attend college in hope of getting that diploma in order to get a good job, and others come mostly in their mid-forties to a community college. Around a “seventy percent” of Americans go to a four year college but around “two-thirds” end up dropping out. With those percentages in mind it is not oblivious that college is not for everyone, some are “not qualified for college”, and college is
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Professor X from the In the Basement of the Ivory Tower makes the point that most students are “unfit for college” as some “lack the most-basic skills” from his experiences as an English