The article "Death by Degrees" explains how in China the education system was started. Today’s economy requires a degree in order to have a good paying and more secure job; the alternate is working a low paying job, like at McDonalds.
If I do not finish college, I would not be able to go home. I would get a job and begin a life. That shows that I have no choice. I am being forced to get my college education, but in reality, a bachelor’s degree won’t get me anywhere.
With the economy the way it is, I must have knowledge enough to know what I am doing in the workplace and the ability to function under any circumstances. Still I will be completely restricted as to what jobs I can seek. I can’t be everything. In a way, it is modern day slavery. I have to get an education because I want a good paying job, but at the same time I will be working jobs that require my abilities for the rest of my life. In the article, if applicants did not pass the test, they did not get very far in life. That is the same today. Taxi drivers pay $200 an hour for SAT tutors. What taxi driver can afford that? Also, I don’t want to be working the same job my whole life. Ironically, my plan is to take over my parents ad business; neither of them went to college.
This raises questions, why must I be required to spend four more years of my life learning about something while my parents didn’t have to? Why is today’s generation held to different standards than previous ones? In China, the education system ended up being for people who could afford it. Now it is we students who go, or we suffer severe consequences with little help from the people whose opinions we value higher than others: our parents.
For me there is no room for mistakes now, otherwise my life goes down a completely unwanted path. My peers and I are forced to get a secondary education and start a life. But, why disregard what happens to us when our plans don’t work out for the best in every situation?
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