| There are opportunities in one's lifetime that present | | | | time to consider your future goals. |
| themselves only because you have earned a college | | | | A Degree Expands Life's Opportunities |
| degree. What does it mean for someone with a | | | | We live in a constantly changing high-tech world. Our |
| college degree? | | | | economy now relies more on brainpower than muscle |
| An Increased Knowledge Base | | | | power because of these changes. More jobs require |
| College teaches you to think rationally. It boosts your | | | | education beyond high school. Your college degree |
| power to grasp developments in our fast changing | | | | gives you more jobs to choose from. |
| world. It empowers you to independently evaluate | | | | A college education is a minimum requirement of |
| the authority of information you here without | | | | many professional jobs. A bachelor's degree is a |
| counting on some endorsement of a so-called expert. | | | | minimum credential for teachers, engineers, and |
| This educational experience helps you work with | | | | commissioned officers in the military. Many salaried |
| other professionals by taking what they say and | | | | jobs in large corporations with a formal hiring process |
| come to your own conclusion. This skill is critical for | | | | look for at least a four-year degree. |
| individuals today. | | | | Corporations routinely eliminate those applicants who |
| A proper education will provide you the ability to | | | | don't have a four-year degree because they lacked |
| articulate thoughts clearly in speech and in writing, | | | | the intellect or diligence to earn one. Corporations |
| and to make wise decisions. This will allow you to | | | | give preference to graduates with high grades. When |
| recognize rubbish when you read or hear it. | | | | the human resource office of a large corporation |
| If you apply yourself, college will prepare you to learn | | | | requires a bachelor's degree, they use colleges to |
| on your own. Anyone with a bachelor's degree should | | | | help sort applicants for a job. |
| be able to teach themselves whatever technical skills | | | | A bachelor's degree is required for admission to law |
| they may need. Education is about learning to think - | | | | school or medical school, which - in turn - is a |
| learning different ways to analyze a problem and find | | | | prerequisite to becoming an attorney or physician. |
| a solution. | | | | One purpose of a university is to prepare students |
| You Will Earn More Money | | | | for a future career in the learned professions such as |
| A degree will increase your earning potential | | | | law, medicine, engineering, science, scholarly research, |
| substantially. Earning a degree is the fast track to a | | | | and teaching. |
| high-paying job. A person who attends college, as a | | | | The distinguishing feature of education for learned |
| rule, earns more than a person who does not. For | | | | professions is that learned professionals think from |
| example, as much as ten years ago, a person with a | | | | first principles not by memorizing, not by quoting |
| college degree from a four-year college earned over | | | | either dogma or authorities, not by copying from |
| $18,000 more than a person who did not go to | | | | handbooks. Employers know an educated person |
| college. Even someone that has completed a | | | | usually is creative, and knows more than one |
| two-year associate's degree earns more than the | | | | acceptable way to solve a particular problem. |
| average high school graduate. | | | | A college education will teach you fundamentals that |
| A Degree Provides A Brighter Future | | | | will never go out of fashion. These fundamentals |
| A college education can help you become a | | | | include the ability to read well, thinking critically, |
| responsible citizen by understanding of the | | | | improve your ability to write concise. It gives you the |
| community, the nation, and the world that you live in. | | | | ability to find information, to sort and shift it and then |
| In college you will be able to explore your interests, | | | | to teach yourself. |
| uncover things you never knew before, and give you | | | | |