How To Pursue Higher Education

In today 's society, there is a lot of stress placed on younger generations to pursue higher education. Having more than just high school based knowledge is required to have a well paying career. Employers expect their employees to have a certain level of knowledge in order to work efficiently. Education is just the short cut to the career that you want to do. Saying that what one’s education standing is what brightens or dulls your future. One’s education does not determine who you are, or what your success end’s up being.
Society often looks at the successes and failures of an individual. What the government really likes to look at is how one ended up getting there. Whether your path was from starting at a community college then transferring to a university, or if it was just straight from high school to a university, all society cares about is the education of students. They want students to be educated and have the opportunities that many didn’t have before. Education is what parents and the government really want one in particular to have so that the upcoming generations would live a less stressful life. By that I mean not having to struggle with having to find another job if you get laid off. You would have that education so you could easily find another job in the same career field. Making an individual 's life easier in the sense that one 's education will get a well paid job, leading to the point where one 's life is a lot easier. In order for you to have a good starting position in the career that you desire, you need to have had obtained higher education. Graduating and obtaining that education is a requirement. Someone who ended up going to a college is not always going to be educated in the way that the institution wanted them to be. In the end it matters how the person chose to be educated. Whether it was to keep moving on in the institution or having dropped out and started from scratch. Steve Jobs is a prime example of one who ended up dropping out of a higher learning institution and pursuing his dream in another way other than taking the way that society wanted him to go. Jobs was a young kid at the time when he realized that school just wasn’t for him (The 15 Richest People Who Didn 't Graduate From College). For him, dropping out was his decision. This shows how you can be very successful in whatever you want to do even if you didn’t end up graduating from a higher learning institution. School is just a way of obtaining your education. Education is an enlightening experience from events that you have gone through. Education is not just sitting in a classroom being told what something means. You can be outside of school and become educated in those events that you chose to go through. Steve Jobs, Richard Branson, Oprah Winfrey, Mark Zuckenburg, Henry Ford, Steven Spielberg, Bill Gates, and many more. All of those listed have either dropped out of college or never even attempted to try. If you are to look at all those who never went to school and have become successful, you would see that it was not easy for any of them. Looking at a college entry requirements you could observe that they are looking at very specific …show more content…
You work hard to obtain that education that you desire. School would be just another easier way to get your education. Failing over and over again is how the most successful people is the world obtained their riches. From their failures they turned around, got up, and keept going to achieve their goal. Everything that you set your mind to can be accomplished if you put in that extra work. Just going through the flow of being inside of a learning institution cannot take you where you want to go. Of course many people that have gone to college would tell you that all you have to do is get the assignments done and you’ll be okay. The truth is that they also worked hard to be able to get through the challenging life associated with college. Everywhere you are going to need it. They are essential to your