More than Just a Piece of Paper

More than Just a Piece of Paper
In the article For Most People, College is a Waste of Time; Charlie Murrey expresses his thoughts about the continuum of testing throughout a professional’s career. He feels as though a bachelor’s degree does not explain anything about a student’s ability, but rather is a piece of paper that explains your time at a college or university. Murrey states that the solution to this dilemma is to have no degree at all. He shares that the only way to see the students’ actual ability is through a series of tests. Some students may just coast through college without actually obtaining important and useful information.
I agree with Murrey in the fact that some students’ may just do the work that is needed to skim by in class with a C or even a D. This student will not be useful in a work setting, because if he is not willing to put the effort into his school work than where is the motivation needed to excel in the workplace. I know that when I initially started college I was one of those students that did the bare minimum to just pass the class. I would have been close to worthless in a business setting. For the students like me, in my past experience would fall through the cracks if there were certification tests. Murrey expresses that more than two-thirds of students with a bachelor’s degrees are not getting tested before entering the work place.
Murrey explains the benefits from a non traditional college experience through the use of online type classes. Students’ from a traditional four year college would do better than students from an online class due to the personal interaction with the professor. He expresses how certification testing would create an equal playing field for everyone, because the people who are unable to attend a traditional college would have the same opportunities. I do not agree with his idea of only using certified testing to determine the student’s intellectual capabilities.
A four year college like Capital University does not only pump individuals full of information, but rather provides students with valuable experience that will better them down the line. Another aspect about this system is the fact that some students are simply not good at taking tests. I believe that just by simply taking a test the employer is not able to see all if the abilities that a person may posses. A test will not show the personality of an individual or the creativity that they have. A certification test may turn a bright colorful person to a dull shade of grey.
A person who simply studies for a test may learn information but may not gain knowledge. When a student studies for a test they simply learn the information needed to pass the test, they are not worried about how that information could be implemented. Murrey says that an educational world based on certification tests would be a better place in many ways, because it would provide the people without a bachelor’s degree the same opportunities as those who hold that piece of paper. I think that this statement is simply worthless. If a student did not have to go to college to get the same type of job they wanted than why would anyone attend a four year university?
There is a reason why Capital Students pay 32,000 dollars a year to attend college. When we graduate from college we hope to have gained the knowledge and experience that will help us throughout our careers. If this notion of degrees is taken away than how or why would colleges exist. The world in general would not benefit from such tests. I would not want to have surgery performed by a doctor who throughout college never touched a scalpel. Murrey talks about the whole notion of creating an equal bond between everyone. I think that this notion is nonsense and will never happen. Getting rid of the traditional way of schooling is something that I consider to be barbaric and hope to never see in my lifetime.