In my opinion, Camille Paglia is stuck living in the past, believing that her youth was the best time in her life. As such, she believes that today’s economic growth and the structure of today’s collegiate environment is not up to scratch with today’s standards, as she compares them to the standards that she believes were present during her youth. However, as today’s standards are significantly different to the standards of her youth, and our collegiate system works to prepare our young adults for life in the real world by allowing them to form their own opinions and work to accomplish their own goals, without crippling their creativity.
Today’s collegiate system is a good thing, as being creative allows people to grow and complete their own goals. It also teaches them to take responsibility for their own actions and do many things that they wouldn’t be able to do without the reasonable amount of preparation that college gives them. Professors teach students to be responsible for their own actions, to being on their own, and to handle money more carefully. Students don’t have a large amount of money or the time to earn much as they would like to spend.
Finally, she seems to be extremely opinionated, and it appears that she might just write simply because she likes to read her own writing and wants to try forcing her opinions onto others. That is one thing I don’t really like about her article, because I really believe that our collegiate system is working, and not only is she opinionated, she is also somewhat incorrect. I myself am a criminal justice major, which is a liberal art, which shows that her opinion is kind of messed up.
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