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Essay on Higher Educational System
Education plays an incredibly significant part in humanist notion. We suppose that it is the responsibility of every society to make the future enhanced than the present. Education is an asset, not merely or even mostly in a narrow financial sense but also communally as well as ethically (Ohanian, 1999). It should endeavor to accomplish as a minimum three basic tasks, the expansion of talents in addition to skills; the development of freedom of thought; and the development in ethical and communal behavior. It is also necessary that children must be trained in a relaxed, pleasant atmosphere to promote them to love as well as be loved, to enjoy a societal life.
FROM THE PRECEDING historical description it is clear that American higher education has fitted its programs to the changing American environment, while following at the same time an essentially unchanging purpose. It has in every age reflected the needs of the age, but it has also carried down through its history a tradition of liberal learning that sets it apart from other kinds of education. The system that has thus evolved is unique; one that illustrates many of the advantages and some of the failings of the society it serves (Cheng, 2000). The question naturally arises whether the higher education that history has given us is adequate for the present age. There are suggestions continually being made that we need a modern education for the modern world, with the implication that present education is somehow obsolete. Certainly present social and intellectual conditions are so changed from those of any previous age that an assessment of our inheritance and our needs is a valuable educational undertaking .
The present system of higher education is made up of four principal types of institution: the separate college, the separate professional school, the university, and the separate junior college.........
