Two Years Are Better Than Four
I agree with this article. People dismiss the skills and knowledge that can be gained through first-hand experience when they focus too much on education being solely about going to school and getting good grades. Liz Addison agrees with this thinking in her article “Two Years Are Better Than Four” by saying that the opportunity for self-discovery is far more important than “prov[ing] yourself worldly, insightful, cultured,[and] mature” to attend a university (Addison 213). This is furthered by Sir Ken Robinson in his speech called “Changing Education Paradigms” when he emphasizes that the current education system needs to change their priorities. If they were concerned about pure learning, they wouldn’t place so much significance on classroom