It is not uncommon these days for young adults to accept higher education in universities rather than go to work directly after graduating from high school. People tend to think that those who having a diploma will have a better job, a higher salary and a more successful career. However, there are some badmouthing against higher education recently. Some argue that going to university is useless and time-wasting, because students only learn theories from textbook in university and lack practical experience, as well as miss the chances to be promoted. Is investing in a higher education still worth it? My answer is “yes”. Higher education pays off not only financially but in ways that are impossible to measure.
First, having a degree often means having a better job and earning more money. Graduates may get a same, or even a lower salary compared to their colleagues when they get a job at the first time, but they will soon get a much higher salary after accustomed to the working place and gain social experience. They tend to have a better job performance, be more adaptable to news things, and more creative, thus they are easily to be promoted. Besides, a diploma also gives graduates an upper hand in a economic recession. They stand a better chance of not being laid off, because they are doing more creative jobs in a knowledge-based economy.
Second and more important, students have a new way of approaching the world, through the power of learning, analyzing, and thinking critically. University is not only a place to acquire knowledge, but to learn different ways of thinking as well. For instance, historical lessons are more than just demonstrating some statistics and to know some well-known figures in the history. The true meaning of learning history is to give students a chance to understand themselves differently, seeing how their lives are both like and unlike those who inhabited other eras and other lands. Students learn to analyze one thing from different perspectives. Therefore, they tend to be more sensible and less credulous to the misleading advertisements full of their lives. Higher education prepares students for a lifetime of considering information and growing in knowledge and in wisdom.
Admittedly, students spending a long time in the ivory tower may lack practical experience and not adaptable to a social job. They may not know how to use the knowledge they learned from textbook to solve real life’s problems. However, they can simply overcome this difficulty by taking part-time jobs and attending more social events. A student majoring in economy may not know how to sell household equipment in a department, but after analyzing those products with the knowledge learned from school, and then conceiving of a few of plans, he or she may quickly promote those equipment, and perform much better than before. Moreover, there are many practical lessons in school to help student gain real experience. In these lessons, professors encourage students to think independently, to cooperate with their team members, to build a new model by using theoretical knowledge in order to solve problems.
Overall, investing in higher education is a worthy deal, for it will bring you an immeasurable fortune, both in physical and spiritual sides. it not only helps you kickstart a career in fields you like, but gives you a new way to approach the world. The value of higher education is embodied in those who dream bigger and achieve more, who create their own futures by their own hands and shape their own destinies.
本文是没有经过批改的原汁原味版，所以大概会有少量错误。这篇文章是我今年考研至今（10月）写下的第一篇文章，是努力一年所取得的进步的证明。虽然文中的精彩句子基本来源于参考资料，虽然上交后才发现看错题目要求……总之，合影，留念。
10:44 2016/10/8