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Issue 39
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39"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."
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Bill Gates, who didn't complete his degree in Harvard University, established his business of Microsoft which ranks in the top of Fortune. This could be a good example that people could learn more by studying, and reading on their own for four years rather than by pursuing a university or college degree. However, I agree with the proposition that attending a university degree is the most appropriate and suitable way that people can gain more and better.
Admittedly, sometimes a university or college degree means nothing but a sheet of paper. Besides Bill Gates there are many greats like Michael Faraday, Edison, Nobel Alfred Bernhard who study by themselves appear better than graduates with degrees. Nevertheless, this is determined by the students themselves, not due to the universities. As for people who have strong ability of self-management and definite their purpose of learning, they may obtain more knowledge from self-studying than attending university or college.
Actually students in universities or colleges could learn more and better than others because the formal education system not only provides students with experienced teachers, advanced instruments but also the perfect atmosphere of hard learning. All of them instruct students study more efficiently and effectively. Genius are rare and we ordinary people demand formal and regular study to understand the formulas in mathematics, the laws in physics, the equations in chemistry, the events in history and so on. Without the experiment of flame reaction, you almost cannot imagine the cuprum is able to give off green light. Through high schools we acquire the basic knowledge and learning skills, but only through universities can we comprehend how the world is working. Undoubtedly, teenagers who didn't attend universities lack the sense of cultivation and those who attended universities will certainly found what they learned from classes and lectures turned into fortune when they get into the society.
Another point is that, students obtain not only knowledge from schools, but also the ways of thinking and the ability to collaborate with others. Through communication with teachers and schoolmates, one can mature his/her outlook, broaden his/her horizon, improve his/her methods of study and even change his/her way of thinking. As the Dean of biology department at my university once said (and I paraphrase): "Before I came into university, I was a little naive boy loves animals and basketball, it is the campus life that turned me to a man who truthfully understand the meaning of wealth, friendship, success, and the most important--love, I met my wife in this school, and I love her, and the entire four year of life in this school with my tutors and classmates." This illustrates how campus life and education influence the student' opinion about life and conduce to shape a sound personality. And those who believe in that self-studying is better will become aware that self-paced education is separated from warm help and collaboration, maybe go down on incorrect way.
In conclusion, the intellectual benefits of attending a university or college are not vastly overrated. Without pursuing a university or college degree and four years campus life, one can hardly own a formal and systematic knowledge they needed in their further study and work, and a sound personality which is important in his/her entire life. |
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