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107. people believe that a college or university education should be available to all students. Others believe that higher education should be available only to good students. Discuss these views. Which view do you agree with? Explain why.
The popularity of higher education is currently the subject of intense debate in my country-China. It appears that, however, people have paid too much passion on the debate to forget the initial purpose for higher education. As a student of university who majors in economics, I carefully evaluate the profits and cost of popularity of higher education to all students with practical conduct and personal experience, arriving at the conclusion that restricting higher education only to good students would be wiser.
On one hand, the quality of higher education would be discounted popularity. After all, resource available to education is by no means infinite and a diploma owned by everyone could hardly make its owner outstanding from others. With increasing number of university students, government could solve the problem of lodging and teaching building with raising expenditure, however, the shortage of qualified teachers brings about new problem, which could hardly be solved with single money. As a result, students seldom have chance to communicate with their professors and the only way they learn from them is through lecture given to hundreds of students. Most of students resort to internet or library to solve their academic questions rather than exchanging ideas with tutors, and what is worse, quite a number of students just give up exploring. If all issues could be solved by computer and library, what would be the function of university education at all?
On the other hand, more and more students obtain opportunities to enter university owing to the policy to “industrialize” education set by government in recent years. What accompanies such glory is nevertheless the treatment of “heaven’s favored ones” as they dreamed of, but the increasing difficulty to find jobs. Since graduates lack practical skill or academic ability, the dream of finding a good job simply with a diploma would undoubtedly broke up when nearly everybody holds such diploma in labor market once higher education is available to all students. In that case, diploma would be merely a piece of paper rather than a passport to job; seeking such diploma would be solely a waste of time and money rather than demonstration of capability.
Furthermore, in the aspect of a society, expending too much on higher education would be probable a waste of resource and produce more problems than it can solve. HONG KONG-Opinion polls in China in the past year have generally listed the country’s higher education as one of the three major targets of growing public discontent. The money could have been contributed to, say, vocational education which would solve the problem of factory’s shortage of skilled workers, as well as of students’ jobless. At the same time, high education might raise graduates’ expectation of offer which would exacerbate the situation.
I do not mean to deny the wonderful expectation of high education; more people entering university will be a sigh of prosperous of a country’s material prosperity and spiritual values and also the national quality will be promoted. Whereas, before we come up with a solution, we had better take cost and benefit, the whole society’s welfare and urgent demand into first consideration.
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