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ANAMARY'S EDITORIAL LETTER
IN
2014,
COLLEGE IS
ESSENTIAL.
For hundreds of years education has been thought of as the key to future success in public life just as much as in private life. After all, “knowledge is power,” the old saying goes.
President Barack Obama said in a speech:
“in America, higher education isn’t a luxury — it’s an economic necessity that every family should be able to afford.”
Today, we view higher education as a commodity that can be bought, sold, traded and marketed. A college education has a value that can be expressed in monetary, material terms. If graduates cannot take whatever they learned from their classes and market it, modern society feels the lesson is not worth having.
Is work really all we do with our lives? Do we do nothing but labor? Is there nothing else worth doing or learning about?
The “higher” part of higher education refers not to an older age at which students attend school, but a higher plane of intellectual and character existence. Higher education is supposed to foster belonging and drive ambition for recognition and a life spent in public. Its purpose is not job placement but quality citizenship.
College must be taken as a
tarinig for life and not only as a way to obtain a laboral position. The lessons we must acquire from college go beyond earning money. Your education is what you have deep in your head and heart, and it is imperative for everyone of us to put our knowledge in favor of humanity, in that way, our higher education will be profitable.
Jamie White
Marketing&Advertising Expert
BY:
ANAMARY OLIVAS