Many years ago it wasn’t necessary to
hold a college diploma to make a decent living, and labor unions were more
prominent than the universities. But over the past 30 years, universities have
replaced labor unions as the main employment institution and without at least a
bachelor’s degree the chances of finding jobs with steady incomes are slim.
Student debt in the United States now exceeds $1 trillion and universities are
continuing to raise the tuitions! As long as a bachelor’s degree is required to
find a career, students will pay as much as necessary. If I decided not go to
college and not obtain a bachelor’s degree, I would struggle to make ends meet for
the rest of my life. A majority of job openings require bachelor degrees and
years of experience! But, in the same sense if I wanted to be a successful doctor
or one day become a Supreme Court justice it is almost essential to graduate
from an Ivy League school! When Elena Kagan joined the Supreme Court, it marked
the first time in history that every single justice had attended Harvard or
Yale. The prices for these schools are hefty and not many people are wealthy
enough to go. Even back in the year 605 in China they were having the same
struggles as we are today. In order to get the highest salary students had to
score the highest on exams, but in order to learn all the necessary information
students had to have a very expensive tutor or have the money to bribe the
examiners. For a poor countryman, making it past the second round was
impossible. Much later as a result of all the stress and anger, a failed
student formed an army and rebelled against the Chinese system. It became the bloodiest
conflict of the 19th century, 20 million people died. Do we want that to happen
today? The rising prices of tuition and the low number of jobs are stressing
this generation out and really making them angry. Why is higher education so
expensive if it is so necessary? Do medical students really need to go through a
$1 million education in order to become certified? Why do students now need
master’s degrees to advance? Our education system is just a system of
stratification and barely a system for relaying knowledge; and that needs to
change.
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