Educational institutions should actively encourage their students to choose fields of study that will prepare them for lucrative careers. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
In today’s times, the debate between following money or following your passion is extremely germane. While some individuals are lucky and find their passion within lucrative careers, others are not; for the latter group of individuals, passion may come at the cost of money. With that being said, I happen to agree with the hackneyed saying that “money cannot always bring you happiness”. Money is a necessity, but if one can follow their dreams and still live a decent life, it is an educational institution’s job to do so. Hence, educational institutions should not encourage their students to choose fields that would lead them towards lucrative careers.
A fundamental reason for my opinion is that educational institutions do not have the complete set of knowledge to determine what will be lucrative in the future. The jobs that prove to be lucrative today may in fact not be that lucrative tomorrow. With quick paced advancements in technology and other economic changes, jobs that we think are here to stay might actually be obsolete sooner than we can imagine. For this very reason, actively encouraging young students to follow a certain career path could very well be futile. An institution would not want to end up in a situation where they actively encouraged students to pursue the wrong careers.
In addition to the problem of asymmetric knowledge, one might also consider the fact that working at an educational institution itself is not necessarily a very lucrative career. Our minds are trained to think of quantitative trading and investment banking as lucrative careers; we never hear about teaching being rewarding. If educational institutions were to deter students from pursuing fields such as education, who would run educational institutions in the future? If schools are teaching their students to pursue fields that maximize their future incomes, then an increasing number of students may decide to forego careers like teaching and enter more wealthy industries. As this continues, the economy will enter a vicious cycle of a shortage of teachers. This is a detrimental consequence that could result from preparing students for only well-paid careers.
An opponent of this opinion might argue that educational institutions should encourage students to study fields that will be rewarding because it is practical to do so. As aforementioned, we cannot survive without money. If that is something that we cannot prevent, then pushing students towards lucrative careers would be a very pragmatic approach. After all, parents choose to educate their children in order to prepare them to succeed in the future. Today, success is often measured relative to wealth.
Overall, there is no right answer to this question; it all depends on what people view as the goals of education institutions. It is clear, however, that educational institutions are not equipped to predict what careers will be lucrative in the future, and neither would they like to see the collapse of the educational system as a result of students no longer wanting to pursue less rewarding careers such as teaching.
- Educational institutions should actively encourage their students to choose fields of study that will prepare them for lucrative careers. Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and sup 88
- The following appeared in a letter from the faculty committee to the president of Seatown University:A study conducted at nearby Oceania University showed that faculty retention is higher when professors are offered free tuition at the university for thei 55
- 1.Educational institutions have a responsibility to dissuade students from pursuing fields of study in which they are unlikely to succeed.Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the claim. In developing and sup 58
Grammar and spelling errors:
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Suggestion:
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
actually, also, but, hence, however, if, may, so, still, then, well, while, after all, in addition, in fact, such as, as a result
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 28.0 19.5258426966 143% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 24.0 12.4196629213 193% => OK
Conjunction : 8.0 14.8657303371 54% => More conjunction wanted.
Relative clauses : 17.0 11.3162921348 150% => OK
Pronoun: 45.0 33.0505617978 136% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 61.0 58.6224719101 104% => OK
Nominalization: 10.0 12.9106741573 77% => OK
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 2640.0 2235.4752809 118% => OK
No of words: 501.0 442.535393258 113% => OK
Chars per words: 5.26946107784 5.05705443957 104% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.73107062784 4.55969084622 104% => OK
Word Length SD: 2.94584407239 2.79657885939 105% => OK
Unique words: 257.0 215.323595506 119% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.512974051896 0.4932671777 104% => OK
syllable_count: 827.1 704.065955056 117% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.7 1.59117977528 107% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 9.0 6.24550561798 144% => OK
Article: 6.0 4.99550561798 120% => OK
Subordination: 7.0 3.10617977528 225% => Less adverbial clause wanted.
Conjunction: 2.0 1.77640449438 113% => OK
Preposition: 5.0 4.38483146067 114% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 23.0 20.2370786517 114% => OK
Sentence length: 21.0 23.0359550562 91% => OK
Sentence length SD: 50.5069573526 60.3974514979 84% => OK
Chars per sentence: 114.782608696 118.986275619 96% => OK
Words per sentence: 21.7826086957 23.4991977007 93% => OK
Discourse Markers: 5.60869565217 5.21951772744 107% => OK
Paragraphs: 5.0 4.97078651685 101% => OK
Language errors: 1.0 7.80617977528 13% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 11.0 10.2758426966 107% => OK
Sentences with negative sentiment : 7.0 5.13820224719 136% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 5.0 4.83258426966 103% => OK
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.285620162322 0.243740707755 117% => OK
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0849480926463 0.0831039109588 102% => OK
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0728189788034 0.0758088955206 96% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.164085603503 0.150359130593 109% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.0427786008574 0.0667264976115 64% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 14.3 14.1392134831 101% => OK
flesch_reading_ease: 41.7 48.8420337079 85% => OK
smog_index: 8.8 7.92365168539 111% => OK
flesch_kincaid_grade: 12.7 12.1743820225 104% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 13.29 12.1639044944 109% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.38706741573 101% => OK
difficult_words: 121.0 100.480337079 120% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 12.0 11.8971910112 101% => OK
gunning_fog: 10.4 11.2143820225 93% => OK
text_standard: 13.0 11.7820224719 110% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Rates: 83.33 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 5.0 Out of 6
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