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第一次学tofel作文,很多规矩都不太明白,请大家帮着看看吧!多谢。
1. People attend college or university for many different reasons (for example, new experiences, career preparation, increased knowledge). Why do you think people attend college or university? Use specific reasons and examples to support your answer.
The reason of going to college or university may be so versatile that it varies from person to person. However, I believe that the major purpose for most college or university attendees can be categorized into three parts: the desire for a better life, the thirst for knowledge and the pursuit for a childhood dream.
In most cases people choose to go to college or university for a better life. They believe that higher educations like these are able to grant them a brighter future. By learning knowledge of particular fields and more importantly be given degrees and diplomas, they are given the chance to apply for a wider range of work, which with better pay or higher social positions promise them improvements in later life. Take John Edward as an example. This Democrat’s vice president candidate’s life track impressively demonstrates how one can started off with so little, simply from an ordinary working class family, to the achievement of so big, among the top ranked politicians in the States, through the help of education.
Moreover, the thirst for knowledge is also a common reason that drives people to enter college or university. As the aspiration for exploring the unknown long lies deep in the human nature, this hankering promotes people to pursuit for higher level of educations. By looking back into history, we see famous figures such as Isaac Newton, Madam Currie, T. S. Eliot who all gradually uncovered the beauty of their own disciplines through college or university educations. For these individuals the meaning of university or college education do not lied in the role of a key to a better life but in the power of knowledge bestowed on them.
Apart from the foregoing reasons, the power of childhood dreams that propel people to go to university or college should also not be overlooked. Since we were little kids, we were told to look up people who graduate from places such as Harvard, Yale, and Cambridge. We admired them as role models and hoped that one day we will be just like them. Like a boy who wishes to follow his father’s track, some people attend university or college for the realization of this childhood dream.
As a philosopher once said, there are no two identical leaves in this world; I believed that the same is also true for people’s different reasons of going to university and college. However, no matter what the purpose of each person is, whether it is the desire for a better life, thirst for knowledge or the realization for childhood dream, the essence is the same, the yearn for a change in life. |
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