Faruhar: After spending time with my children to visit Parnard College and Columbia University, the school is a luxurious experience and high tuition fees to make me think deeply.
Education is a topic that I have been thinking about, part of the reason is that almost every business person I know is very concerned about the gap between skills (just as I wrote in a column article not long ago), and because I am in high school in high school, I am in high school in high school.The children have begun to choose the university they want to go.Earlier this month, for the first time, we participated in a formal university visitor and went to Barnard College (my alma mater) and Columbia University.
On the one hand, resources and opportunities are amazing, even more than when I go to school.The school offers thousands of courses (the guidance of the Palanard College tells us that each student in the school is divided into one and more than one), and the opportunity to follow the top professors is almost provided on demand.Irsenal and extra -curricular activities almost made me suffer from choice.Should we explore the role of African -American models in modern art, or do we have a virtual reality trip to the School of Engineering of Columbia University, or listen to a speech on Latin immigrants' identity and integration of social situation in Canada?
Since I graduated in 1992, the facilities of these two schools have been upgraded significantly. The campus is erected with first -class buildings designed by top architects.The guide proudly introduces the school's non -ordinary meal services.John Jay Canteen (I was ate in this cafeteria that year in this cafeteria that I was eating carbohydrates in this cafeteria, and it increased by 15 pounds at once.) Now it seems that it can provide students' various requirements for providing special meals mdash; mdash; gluten -free meals, vegan foods, prickly foods, Primitive people eat diet, double/half of soybean meals.There is even a night of sea and land meals. Students can enjoy steaks and lobsters placed on the flying disk on public squares.The guidance of the Palanard College also proudly told us that the college provides first -class consulting and group healing services (because we all live in this crazy and nervous period, so this is really great), there is a student in the college still a student in the collegeA healthy women's space that can enjoy massage and facial care.Regardless of whether the students are rich, liabilities, or extremely dependent on scholarships, there is everything they want, only the tuition fee of $ 71282 only one year.
After returning from these visiting groups, I am amazed on the one hand, and on the one hand, I am confused about most marketing in the luxury experience.Psychologists have found that perseverance is the most important factor in success.However, American universities are in a competition that attracts all students from all over the world, which has led to a trickle effect: top universities build more expensive facilities, and provide more and more welfare that you can't imagine.I have to work hard to keep up to attract the sharp student MDash; MDASH; it is the tip student to help the school maintain the score in the crucial American news and World Report College Ranking.Without a high ranking, it is difficult to collect high tuition fees.
As a result, both the school and the students carried a huge debt bubble, which further led to the differences in education and results.The rise in tuition fees, the state government cuts budgets, and the poorer college students must work as they go to school before they can pay four years of tuition fees mdash; MDASH; now they account for 84%of their family income;I discussed this issue in some column articles in the past.Amanda Ripley has recently written a particularly great article on the attitude of this kind of problem.It also explored related history.
That visit greatly subverted my cognition.Our people have always rely on education to improve their social classes.My Turkish grandmother is illiterate, but her son has received scholarships in the United States and has been promoted to the middle class in his generation.My grandmother came from the family of coal miners in Yorkshire. She benefited from the British grammar school system and eventually became a nurse.My own parents, one is an engineer and the other is a teacher. In order not to borrow debts, I have to finish college. They have to work extra in the summer.
Taking my daughter to visit a first -class university should have a sense of success, and so on the micro level.But at a larger level, I can't help but feel uneasy about this system: it posted the Shanghai algae mask to a small number of privileges, and so that so many other people were desperately overwhelmed by the difficulties of the road on the road of the middle class.
Translator/He Li
