College Education

College education is a waste of time and money

In creating the annotation, I selected the relevant sources including scholarly articles, books, videos, and wildcards. The purpose of annotation is to provide adequate evidence on the argument that college education is waste of time and money.

Jackson, Kathryn, Christi L. Lower and William J. Rudman. "The Crossroads between Workforce and Education." Perspect Health Inf Manag 13.1 (2016).

Jackson, Lower, and Rudman (2017) provides in-depth analysis of college education by considering its relationship with employment. The article reveals that industry is not producing enough jobs for college graduates. The source is valid because Kathryn Jackson is a researcher at the AHIMA Foundation. She produced significant research in the field of education. Christi Lower has experience in managing academic affairs. This indicates that authors direct encounter with academic issues make them capable of providing better critique. I will use the research article for relating the facts of educational incompetency with the waste of time and money.

Selingo, Jeffrey J. "Two-Thirds of College Grads Struggle to Launch Their Careers ." Harvard Business Review (2016).

The article determines the issues faced by college students in launching their careers. The time spent on college education is wasted because parents invest huge money on high-school education, but the majority fails to provide returns. College degree does not promote job readiness. Author of the source is credible because he spends years on higher education research. Selingo wrote two books on the limitations and failures of higher education. I will use the source for explaining that lack of professional techniques limits the potential of students to find jobs. It will also explain that the colleges don’t prepare students for job interviews or professional lives.

Boyer, Ashley and Burnette Wolf Hamil. "Problems Facing American Education ." 2.1 (2008).

The paper identifies the flaws of the college education system that makes it useless and ineffective for the students. The education doesn't focus on building strong professional personalities such as limited or no attention is given to the promotion of confidence. The author's credibility is visible in their professional experiences. Boyer is a Graduate assistant at the University of Mississippi while Hamil is an Associate professor at the University of Mississippi. Both authors have produced research papers on the challenges of college education. I will use the source for incompetent faculty is unable to make better professionals out of students that makes college education useless.

Choi, Yeseul. "Debt and College Students' Life Transitions: The Effect of Educational Debt on Career Choice in America." Journal of Student Financial Aid 44.1 (2014).

The paper explains that college education demands huge money that the majority of Americans are unable to pay. American population relies on debt for a college education but they are unable to earn sufficient amounts after education for paying the debts. I will incorporate the source for explaining that college education is a waste of money because educational debt has adverse impacts on career choice. The students belonging to poor backgrounds are unable to change their futures. The validity of the source is visible in the facts that provide evidentiary support to the argument such as 70% of the college students rely on loans. Authors of the paper are credible due to his affiliation with the University of Wisconsin.

Martin, Christopher. "Should the public pay for higher education? Equality, liberty, and educational debt ." Theory and Research in Education 15.1 (2017).

Martin highlights the issues that make college education least useful for the students. Most of the American students acquire college education under the debt burdens that affect their careers. The source will allow me to explain that college education is waste of time and money because irrespective of high loans students are unable to find appropriate jobs. Martin is an Associate Professor at the University of British Columbia and author of many research papers that reflect the credibility of the source.

Cottom, Daniel. Why Education Is Useless. University of Pennsylvania Press, 2013.

The book uncovers the limitations of the educational institutes that make education useless. Cottom in the book explains that education restraint student's ability of common sense and thinking. I will use the source because it has relevance to the topic selected for research. The source is valid because the author is a professor at the College of Arts and Science at the University of Oklahoma. He has written books and articles on literature and cultural theory. The source used reliable work of other education critiques including Micheal Brube. The source will be used for providing support to the claims of the uselessness of college education.

Bailey, Thomas R., Shanna Smith Jaggars and Davis Jenkins. Redesigning America's Community Colleges: A Clearer Path to Student Success 1st Edition. Harvard University Press, 2015.

Bailey, Jaggars, and Jenkins criticize the status of college education in America. It explains the need for redesigning college education because it does not contribute to the future career of the students. I will use the source for highlighting the flaws of the college education including lack of vocational training and professional programs. The source will be used for proving that college education is a waste of money because it does not open career opportunities. The authors of the source are credible; Bailey is a scholar while Jaggars and Jenkins have produced significant researches on the topic of education. The source is valid because the authors have added facts about colleges that reveal their weaknesses.

BI. Is College A Waste Of Time And Money? 2018. 26 02 2019 <https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kTSLpT__Wts>.

The video uncovers the reality of college education by including experts opinion. It identifies the causes of ineffective education such as inadequate salaries of the teachers and lack of facilities. The validity of the source is visible in the facts highlighted by the educationists such as 40% of the students don't attend college. The video included the views of Bryan Caplan who is the author of "The Case Against Education" and professor of economics at the University of Virginia. I will use the source for illustrating how the absence of practical methods undermines the ability of students to develop professional skills.

Disagreement

Chan, Roy Y. "Understanding the purpose of higher education: An analysis of the economic and social benefits for completing a college degree ." JEPRA 6.5 (2016).

The article highlights the significance of college education as it prepares students for future endeavors. It is important for students to understand the purpose of education and the right choices of degrees leads to better career prospects. The author of the article, Chan is affiliated with the Indiana University Bloomington that reveals the credibility of the source. The paper will be used for showing the other side of the argument. It will explain the positive role of college education and how it is not waste of time or money.

Weber, Douglas. "Is the return to education the same for everybody?" IZA World of Labor (2014).

The article identifies the economic benefits of college education that makes it useful for the students. Investing in education is benefits because it provides better future returns. Without education students are less likely to find better jobs or careers. Parents that invest in college education of their children are making a wise decision. I will use the paper for providing opposite views on the claim that college education is waste of time and money. Douglas Weber is a professor at Temple University, the USA that reveals his credibility.

Wild cards

King, Wade and Hope King. The Wild Card: 7 Steps to an Educator's Creative Breakthrough. Dave Burgess Consulting, 2018.

Although college education is important for students but lack of vocational training and ineffective teaching has made to waste of time and money. To derive maximum benefits from college education, the institutes must focus on building professional competencies. The practical benefits of education depend on institutes ability to link it with future career prospects. It is thus important to adapt vocational training tools and practices that will provide professional exposure to the students. Internships and workshops are effective ways of improving students encounter with jobs.

Nikolova, Blagovesta. "The wild card event: Discursive, epistemic and practical aspects of uncertainty being ‘tamed.'" Time & Society 26.1 (2017).

College education is waste of time and money due to the flaws of the educational systems. The institutes focus on giving bookish knowledge to the students that undermine their common sense and skepticism. In colleges students hardly get opportunities for exploring their professional skills. Parents invest huge amounts on college education of their children, but students fail to recover them in the future due to limited jobs. This depicts the need for improving educational vision by emphasizing on professional training and skills building.

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