Issue Essay GRE
Issue: 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 supporting your position, be sure to address the most compelling reasons and/or examples that could be used to challenge your position.
I firmly reject this statement. While advicing students to consider their own abilites and strenghts when they look for their own career path is commonplace (or even recommended), I believe the main purpose of educational institutions in this área is different. I think their job is to present students with the complete spectrum of careers and jobs available so that they can, by themselves, choose the one that best suits him.
Some may argue that people are too young when they make these big, life changing decisions, and they may be right. After all, it may not be realistic that an 18 year old is ready for that kind of responsibility. Maybe we should only guide them towards areas in which they seem apt. But that takes away too much from them; not only is that a great restriction on their free will, it could crush their dreams.
If that was the kind of world in which we lived, Albert Einstein may have never become what he did. While in school, Einstein had terrible grades and flunked most of his clases. Had someone seen that and dissuaded him from phisics, we would certainly live in a different world. Possibly one worst off that the one we live in today. What about Lionel Messi? While being a kid, he had growth hormone deficiency, but he is now one of the best soccer players in the world.
And this is somenthig that should be treated equally at home; as the famous quote goes: “Education starts at home”. My father’s family has a marked engineering tradition, speecificaly in civil engineering. When he chose his undergraduate degree, he went with that tradition even if he
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.
I firmly reject this statement. While advicing students to consider their own abilites and strenghts when they look for their own career path is commonplace (or even recommended), I believe the main purpose of educational institutions in this área is different. I think their job is to present students with the complete spectrum of careers and jobs available so that they can, by themselves, choose the one that best suits him.
Some may argue that people are too young when they make these big, life changing decisions, and they may be right. After all, it may not be realistic that an 18 year old is ready for that kind of responsibility. Maybe we should only guide them towards areas in which they seem apt. But that takes away too much from them; not only is that a great restriction on their free will, it could crush their dreams.
If that was the kind of world in which we lived, Albert Einstein may have never become what he did. While in school, Einstein had terrible grades and flunked most of his clases. Had someone seen that and dissuaded him from phisics, we would certainly live in a different world. Possibly one worst off that the one we live in today. What about Lionel Messi? While being a kid, he had growth hormone deficiency, but he is now one of the best soccer players in the world.
And this is somenthig that should be treated equally at home; as the famous quote goes: “Education starts at home”. My father’s family has a marked engineering tradition, speecificaly in civil engineering. When he chose his undergraduate degree, he went with that tradition even if he