Higher Education
Today’s school system is very controversial when approached with questions like, “Are schools giving students the best possible education?” and “What is the purpose of education?” My concern is whether or not we are teaching students the essentials to live a healthy lifestyle; this can be described as receiving a “full education”. A healthy lifestyle is very vague, that is why I will introduce a second perspective on education. From the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business, a mission statement describes their goal to prepare students to be tomorrow’s leaders. This is, by my standards, a very rational and successful way of teaching but to concur with the idea of a full education would make this school system ideal. An individual’s education is normally thought to consist of their school work and only their school work. In an ideal education, school plays a very important role in obtaining a full education but a good physical health and spiritual education is needed. Our society focuses on school as the primary aspect of education simply because it is more useful in the workforce; a workforce where everyone is inevitably going to end up in some way or another.
In addition to school and physical health, a spiritual education would wrap things up to create a full education. Public schools don’t teach any religious beliefs leaving out, to many people, a very important part of their life. Although, some schools do support religious beliefs indirectly in that they preach the same beliefs as some religions in the classroom. Religions teach us how to act towards one another and set the foundation for our morals. Currently, not everyone is devoted to any one religion or any religion at all; but being knowledgeable in this field gives you a better understanding of how to be a better person. A business career has many different fields and U of I wants to sculpt a well educated individual. Knowledge of business, economics and law are among the priorities of that individual’s learning. Undergraduates should be familiar also in the liberal arts and sciences as well as the fundamental verbal and quantitative reasoning skills needed in the present day’s business activities. Most importantly graduates will learn to combine theory to practice, which in turn will put them in a leading position. Now the question is “Should schools educate students according to this idea of a full education?” I don’t think schools need to change a thing. The resources are open to almost all students. There are many sports teams through the school or through local townships. The same goes for clubs; clubs can cover a whole range of different topics and activities all of which can add to your education. Churches are always willing to take anyone into their community. I believe that schools do their fair share to educate students in what is necessary to be successful economically, which in today’s society is more important than other aspects of a full education. The only problem is getting students to take advantage of these resources. Students need to be encouraged by schools to be more open minded and willing to explore new things. On the more general scope of things, the University of Iowa’s Tippie College of Business tries to produce a person capable of rising to the top in today’s economy. This is a very effective educational structure but is somewhat one sided igno
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