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Aileen Montoya
Instructor Ron Bohannon
English 1010
5 August 2016
Salt Lake Community College
3460 S. 5600 W.
West Valley City Campus
Instructor Bohannon
When people talk about higher education, they think of a good
paying job, ability to solve problems and the ability to communicate
with others but higher education is more than just a step toward your
career its also a way to developed and magnify a better you.

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Benefits To Expanding Your Education

What does higher education mean to me? I believe that higher
education is going to college or university after high school. In my
family I was taught that education is very important, that I could
always find ways to further my education and it would determine who I
would be in life. My mom wasnt able to attain a higher level of
education than middle school, she grow in Mexico really poor were only
people with money to sent there children to school could go. She would
always say to us that we were very fortunate to leave in a country
where education is provided to you, and that we had to take advantage
of it.
Albert Einstein once said, Education is not the learning of facts
but the training of the mind to think. This is what we need more of
people to think for themselves and help solve problems similarly Well
Plato said, No one can be trusted to think straight in large matters
who has not been educated to reason and argue straight (Plato 533).
Gerald Graff also said,
Others believe that college is not only about learning how
to earn a living, important as that goal may be, but also
about learning how to live: how to be an informed and
involved citizen, how to communicate effectively, how to

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understand other cultures and people how to think and
reflect. (Graff 177).
Meeting others from distant places with diverse backgrounds gains
the awareness that nearness to diversity it gives you a broader
world view, cultural understanding, and sophistication, another
justification for a higher education. I believe that both of this cant
not be achieve without having post-school because the circle of
knowledge is limited from the circle of that would have expanded
going to college or a university.
Another reason that someone may think that college is not worth
it is the money that goes in to education. To me higher education is
worth the price, I feel like if was provided free it wouldnt be valued as
much as it is now but we would have fewer problems in the world if
there were more people with higher-level education. Liz Addison said,
The community colleges of America cover the country
college by college and community by community they offer
a network of affordable future, of accessible hope, and an
option to dream. For some students, from many
backgrounds, would never breathe the college experience
if it were not for the community college (Addison 214).
If you really have the desire to further your education there are ways
to help you like for instance financing you education. With the
development of the Internet, its now easier than ever to find different

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ways to pay for college. For example scholarship and grant can
decrease the necessity for loans to finance your education.
Sanford J. Ungar said, This is a country where a mixed-race child
raised overseas by a struggling single mother who confronts
impossible odds can grow up to be president. It is precisely a liberal
education that allowed him to catch up and move ahead (Ungar 193).
Tomas Jefferson said, Everybody should have an education
proportional to their life. How this quote comes across to me is that if
you want to have abundant and comfortable lifestyle you need to be
educated and that it is all up to you to achieve and put effort into. This
country gives you the opportunity to be whatever you what to be you
just have to want it bad enough.
Reaffirming higher education has more benefits then just a
higher paying job. David Foster Wallace wrote, The exact some
experience can mean two totally different things to two different
people, give those peoples two different belief templates and two
different ways of constructing meaning from experience (Wallace
200), like this quote for character analysis here is a great word to
describe it its called Sophrosyne defined in Wikipedia as, Ancient
Greek concept of an ideal of excellence of character and soundness of
mind, which when combined in one well-balanced individual leads to
other qualities, such as temperance, moderation purity, and selfcontrol. Everyone has their own experiences that make them who

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they are and how they think and if someone thinks college or
university is a waste of time then thats fine if they are really doing
something better with that time.
Nelson Mandela, said Education is the most powerful weapon
which you can use to change the world. Above all education expands
your world view, understanding and trains your mind to think, for those
that have that possibility to obtain higher education there are ways to
obtain financial support. In conclusion no other asset can lead to so
many different positive outcome that can improve your overall life
condition than higher education.

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Work Cited
Graff, Gerald Is higher education worth the price? They Say / I Say
177. Is

higher education

worth the price?

Graff, Gerald The New Liberal Art by Sanford J. Ungar, They Say / I
Say 193. Is

higher education

worth the price?

Graff, Gerald, Kenyon Commencement Speech by David Foster
Wallace, They

Say / I Say 200. Is

higher education worth the price?

Graff, Gerald Two Year Are Better Than Four by Liz Addison, They
Say / I Say
214. Is higher education worth the price?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sophrosyne last modified: March 16,
2016 Date

retrieved June 24,

2016
Jefferson, Tomas, Everybody should have an education
proportional to their

life.

Einstein, Albert , Education is not the learning of facts but the

training of the

mind to think.

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Mandela, Nelson, Education is the most powerful weapon which
you can use to change the world.
Plato Republic, Book 7, 533