Wed, Jan 19 2005

Education: Should The Party(ing) Be Over?

I read an interesting bit from Stefan Schumacher in the Daily Trojan. Stefan notes the ease with which many college-age people live their young lives as though the whole process is one long party, and he thinks maybe they all need to do some growing up.

Maybe we should make it harder to attend institutions of higher learning. I don't think it needs to be more expensive. It's already very expensive. That isn't deterring some students from choosing leisure over learning. Maybe the entrance to college should be based more on a young person's ability to be a real participant in his or her own learning process.

There must be a few creative solutions to this whole dilemna. How about a system in which a young person could only receive a certain percentage of his or her college funding from relatives, and would have to earn a portion of their tuition or would have to get some sort of corporate sponsor(s) by making a presentation to prove their case as a serious student? I don't know if it would make a real difference. I do know that all the young people I've known who had to work full-time to attend college had no time or inclination to party away their education.

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