Why should one pursue higher education, and gain one or more college degrees?
Higher Education promotes appreciation of the world around us, and makes us better able to understand who we are and where we are in the universe.
Higher Education makes us able to communicate our thoughts and ideas in oral speech and in writing on a much higher level.
Higher Education opens us up to new areas of knowledge, even those we may think we have no interest in, but often return to later in life.
Higher Education assists in making each of us better conversationalists when with others in any social setting.
Higher Education helps to assist in overcoming prejudices, stereotyping, and judging people without forethought.
Higher Education teaches us to question and challenge and to work against propaganda and dogma of any kind.
Higher Education makes one willing to be skeptical about organized religion, wanting documentation, rather than simply accepting doctrine as reality.
Higher Education opens up our eyes to exposure to the brilliance of men and women who have made major contributions of all kinds to human endeavor.
Higher Education makes one a better partner in marriage, and a better parent.
Higher Education promotes tolerance, open mindedness, empathy, compassion, and appreciation of others who are different from us.
Higher Education enriches us for a lifetime of thought, besides providing a career in an occupation, so that we can provide for ourselves and our families.
Higher Education is attacked, sadly, by those who tell us that it is a bad investment, when there is no better investment for a lifetime. Even when it creates a financial burden for many years, it is so urgent, and since it does so much not only for oneself but also for society as a whole, it is urgent that a plan to cut college loan costs be instituted. By doing so, it will encourage more students to see the value of higher education for the long term.
So when any politician, particularly those on the conservative and Republican side of the political system work to undermine higher education, realize that it is a ploy to keep people ignorant and under one’s control. Higher education must continue to be a goal for more people, rather than an effort to promote ignorance and narrow mindedness!