A college education is becoming less important as the world continues to advance. The bare minimum in today’s day is a high school diploma, but 30 years ago graduating high school was a very big and beneficial thing. Having a college diploma is becoming a lot less meaningful to be successful.
A particular time in my life where I concluded that education was less meaningful was when I graduated high school. The main experience that showed this concern was when I decided to go to City Tech. when deciding to go to this school, I chose an associate in information technology. I chose this degree because of not knowing that IT and computer systems were the same. When my family found out that the degree, I chose was an associate’s, they kept pressuring me into changing schools or even doing a different degree than a bachelor’s or master’s even if the degree isn’t what I lie.
The education given to us students every year is becoming less and less important in today’s day. To prove this, I will be using evidence from CNBC. The article’s name is College grads earn 80% more—but only 51% of Americans see college as very important. This article explains how they made a Gallup poll in 2013 and in 2019. In 2013 70% of people said that college is very important, 23% said that college is fairly important and 6% said that college is not too important. When they asked people again in 2019 51% of people said it was very important, 36t% said it was fairly important and 13% said it was not too important. This change is very drastic since it’s only been 6 years and it was almost a 20% difference in people saying it was very important. Also, more than double the percent said college was not as important compared to 2013. This evidence is proof to the point that college is becoming less beneficial.
The experience that I had was very impactful to me because people of color weren’t in college as much before. To find out that just as the percentage of POC in college is rising the education benefits are dropping. Back in the day finding out your family member is going to college was a big achievement. Now today if your family member is going to college, it just feels normal. Like everyone goes to college and you’re not special. Education not being enough has gotten to a point where companies prefer people with experience to people with a degree.
School is very important and companies deciding that the effort you put into advancing your education simply isn’t enough for them isn’t good for everyone. Some people may be becoming millionaires, but the majorities are just regular people. Not everyone has years of experience in the career choice they want.
