Really this post is a little bit of a rant and I hope that you will forgive me for this. I just can’t understand the type of ill-thought work patriotism some individuals have. The menial, tedious argument that choosing a degree is pointless, a waste of money. The sort of people who say that they, as tax payers, fund our education. People specifically who seem to have enough time in their ‘so called’ busy work day to write comments of upmost arse on thisisgloucestershire.co.uk.
I know I shouldn’t care. I know that reading comments on the internet is something one should avoid. Responding to them is a cardinal sin, so consider myself committed to this sin with this post. Who knows, I may have just brought this pathetic argument of “ditch University for work” to this very blog. The fact of the matter is that University students do work! Shock and horror.
I have juggled around five jobs this summer in order to have enough money to fund my second year of University education. At the same time a debt is building up in the background towards my degree and living costs. How dare people say that they fund our education. More importantly, how dare people say that University is pointless. University deriving from the French universite to mean ‘whole’. If we look at the very foundations of the word, which is from the Latin universum, then University comes to mean “all existing matter”. The same roots as the word Universe actually. Students can become whole filling themselves with academia.
The people who have written such fascist comments on thisisgloucestershire.co.uk will most likely chuckle at the though of academia it seems. Since when did knowledge become unnecessary in the work place?! Of course experience is needed as well! The fact of the matter is to chose the correct degree and you will get a lorry load of experience and education.
Leave out the tremendous amount of contacts one can build up studying their degree. Leave out the experiences of living away from home, in a new area, meeting a broad range of people. Leave out opportunities such as writing for newspapers, producing radio and doing talks which University provides and what are you left with? Nothing.
There is nothing wrong with leaping into the world of full time work but what can a young person expect to find at the moment? Not much. We have 2.42 million unemployed people in the UK and only a few thousand jobs available. Surely being in education, studying a course you enjoy, is the best thing to do at the moment? Most people have a vast variety of experiences during their gap years.
I would love to see the people who say A levels are too easy to actually take the exams. I would love to know why students have such a negative stereotype attached to them. I am the second person in over four generations of my family to have the opportunity to go to University. I have been fortunate enough to be born in an age where the intellect is praised so much that the government regard it a necessity to give all young people the option to study in further education. I would have been mad to have rejected this opportunity. Although, apparently, I would do a lot better in life immediately joining a practical trade as an impractical person.
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