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Summary on Should Everyone Go To College

According to the Department of Labor statistics for 2004 , over 67 of the nation 's recent 2 .8 million high school graduates enrolled in colleges across America (Author 's Name 165 . This is why the typical scenario in high schools every November is seniors grumpily complying with college applications and preparing for entrance examinations as the Scholastic Aptitude Tests (SATs . Some are academically preparing themselves by attending Advanced Placement (AP ) classes while others write letters of intent and ask for

recommendations from faculty or administrators . Above all , the highlight of a graduate is the expectation that a college or university would accept the hard-earned applications

The role of parents in leading their children 's lives is also of utmost importance . Of course , parents want their children to dream big and excel --- become doctors or lawyers perhaps and become successful as they become full-grown adults . Though some high school graduates are not always agreeable to their parents ' decisions , there 's nothing they can do . Parents , after all , carry the check book , and they want to know where their money is going (Author 's Name 166

However , the choice of going to college or not solely remains on the student himself . Following this option , the incoming college student gets to select a major in which he can focus his studies on . But since not all can afford a college education , they must have other alternatives as taking vocational courses which must be taught as early as high-school . Thus the American system must see to it that such vocational occupations as electricians , mechanics , plumbers , carpenters machinery operators , landscapers and the like must be offered . At the time , it seem

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that the only two things worse than not attending college are dropping out of high school or going to prison (Author 's Name 166

Finally , the American high school system should be likened to that in Europe particularly in Germany and France where high school students can choose whether to attend college or a vocational school . In this manner what the student may learn from the vocational school will not rely solely on mastering skills but grasping the theories why such skills are performed in such manner as well . Theories increase the probability of improving performance with the background of the student on the chosen vocation . In this light , the high school graduate will be fully equipped and prepared to his future career whether as a college or vocational graduate

Summary on Traveling as Education

Traveling in the form of sight-seeing , museum visiting , foreign cuisine sampling and souvenir-gathering is considered an instrument to educational development to any individual . What should be taken into account in traveling is not the distance and time of the place visited but the amount of exposure one gets from the various experiences places , cultures and people met along the way . It is about understanding the similarities and differences one has relative to others...

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