Is College The Modern Consolation Of Power?

Prior to the 21st century, college wasn’t as complex as it is now. They had a minimal set of classes, allowing students to trail on a path of self-discovery. You didn’t have job posts in local newspapers, with requirements bolding bachelor’s degree or equivalent strongly preferred. Instead, it was an era of enlightenment and renaissance. Not because of people’s education and depth of understanding of the core curriculum, it was because of the lack of knowledge and the constant encouragement of people to extend their thoughts and concepts beyond the known. Today, “college” is a basic essential to gain a 9–5 job on a decent salary, and for those who want to make it in the upper class, an increased competition where it’s almost impossible to even make it. The average school costs 37,000 for four years, student debt alone averages around 30,000 itself. Just for them to have to work in a traditional setting, to be able to pay it off without any homage to the older eras, where we had some of the biggest developments, ideas, and spreading of knowledge in society ever. So why is this? It’s because college is, well, a scam. It doesn’t influence and builds a pathway for modern thinkers, instead just supplying them with the essential roots to achieve a job to meet satisfaction to keep America’s capitalist country up to perfection. Creativity is traded with practicality, seminars are traded for co-ops and work experiences, we lose the essential of independent thought in college as we search for a way to be comfortable in American society. Think, when we hear ideas of people who choose inconvenient career choices like literacy, or art. We automatically associate them with being unrealistic and problematic, but they are the most frequent ones who are challenging this inconvenient societal norm. Also, the pioneers of modern society tend to be those who fall under the higher social classes, not because of their access of education only, but because they have nothing to lose in taking risks, because at the end of the day if they had fall it was their parents’ money to support them in the first place. We fall short of this, because most of us, have everything to lose. We have the idea of money, especially those who are in the lower socioeconomic classes. We will be unable to promote the idea of independent thought because we are constantly looking for ways to pay off student debt and be able to pay for essential needs, and we are looking for practicality that is constantly encouraged by this flawed system. This generalization is what’s influencing the consolidation of social classes, ensuring that there are enough laborers and workers to meet the requirements of today’s “thinkers”, and to ensure that America’s monetary aspirations can be balanced, but for this to take place, it all starts in the education system. The school systems not for daring thinkers (those who aren’t rich), but instead a realistic workforce.