Preparing for the Real Life

Preparing for the Real Life

  • Submitted By: ali76
  • Date Submitted: 11/11/2013 11:21 PM
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Preparing For The Real Life
“Colleges and universities turn out millions of detective products: its students,” according to Marty Nemko (563). Today, importance of education is growing continuously because future relies on the college students. Most college students believe that college should be preparation for the real world that awaits them because they need higher education to build their future and to achieve in their future. And education is the knowledge of improving one’s potential to highest point. The question is are they being prepared well enough? The answer is that most of the colleges are not providing the right orientation and focus for its students. Educational programs are based on lectures and discussions instead of practical implementations. College education must be redesigned because it is currently not capable of preparing its students for the future. Colleges do not do enough to manage student’s transitions between college and the real world and it is the responsibility of colleges to prepare students. College education should provide graduates with appropriate knowledge and experiences to be used later in their real life challenges and working environment. And the best way for a college to prepare its graduates should be a requirement to learn how to network, to start career planning before graduation, and to evaluate an employer before stepping into the real world in order to be more successful.
The first goal is to teach students how to network. Networking is about meeting new people, to gain contacts, to move forward towards being more successful, and to exchange knowledge and ideas. In “Social Networking as a Tool for Student and Teacher Learning” Bumgardner shares his opinion: “A national survey of 1200 principals, teachers and librarians shows that social networking can help educators share information, create professional learning communities and improve school wide communications with students and those who had used social...

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