TOPIC: ISSUE39 - "The intellectual benefits of attending a university or college are vastly overrated: most people could learn more by studying and reading on their own for four years than by pursuing a university or college degree."
WORDS: 445
TIME: 00:45:00+00:10:00
DATE: 2010/8/3 11:31:47
From all over the world, every country and most people are paying attention to education, especially the study in colleges or universities. The speaker claimed that study in college or in university is unnecessary for students, the speaker thought that most people could learn all by themselves for four years, and it will get a better feedback. However, the speaker overlooked the other important aspects that study in a formal university, thus, I am disagree with the speaker's unfairly assertion for the following reasons.
To begin with, I want to claim that study in university or in college is very important and necessary. With the development of society, education plays an important role in the society than ever before. No matter in which country, they all put the education in a primary situation, and people can learn more science and technology. It is because that science and technology can improve our living conditions and the quality of our lives. So, university and college can offer such a good places. Some people like the speaker will think that studying and reading on their own for four years could learn more than study in university or college, and they were wrong. In my opinion, to be a successful person must have many of the ability, not only the little knowledge that they can learn by themselves. For this reason, university can do better than a person himself or herself. In university, people can learn much more than self-learning. We can learn not only the knowledge, but also the internal substance. For example, it can improve our level of ideological education, team working, even how to make friends, and these are very important for a person for graduation and even to go into the society to find a job.
Moreover, education in university could guarantee students' quality of study. In university, there are many teachers and professors in each course, and I can absolutely promise that they can give you a better education than self-learning. For example, the most of the great man in history were received a better education, like Richard Milhous Nixon, the great president in the United State of America’s history, he was a great student and graduated from Whittier college. What's more, graduating from a formal university or college can easier find a good occupation than self-learning. Generally speaking, graduated from university is more convincing.
In sum, in order to get a better education and be responsible to ourselves, thus, we should try to learn harder and harder, then, we can go to a university or college to take up advanced studies rather than to study and read on their own for four years. |