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American Higher Education
Subject: Application for Position
To
The Respected American Education Minister
31.05.2017
Sir,
With the miserable condition of American Higher Education, I am going to ventilate my
thoughts regarding the US education system in this letter. I am going to disclose the fact of
US universities and colleges turning into profitable business platforms and risking the future
of the learners appearing for higher education.
What is learning?
Learning as defined by Boud et al., (2013) is a process by which an individual acquires
knowledge either with the help of his own experiences or with the assistance of someone else.
Whatever may be the source of learning, the change that is derived to a person from learning
processes is permanent. The process of learning is continuous, long term, focus oriented and
is meant to be expansion of one’s existing boundary of knowledge.
Liberty to education
Every individual has right to higher education but if that education becomes a business
platform turning the university presidents into CEOs and students into consumers, then the
idea of learning will sleep into the graveyard (Ravitch, 2016). Martha C. Nussbaum once
stated that humanity towards higher education is slowly losing their moral dignities turning
education institution as centres of business for the learners. She also brought forth the fact
that this emerging problem is not only confined to US but has taken a huge toll all over the
world crippling the minds of all the students to focus on becoming economically productive
than to be become knowledgeable and critically judgemental to the situations in life
(schooldog, 2017). But the primary goal of education is not to be economically productive
rather it must focus on enhancing the knowledge of the students so that they can differentiate
between the right and the wrongs in their life and can be a successful person in an overall
manner (Altbach, 2013). She stated that to solve this issue, the system of education must be
reconnected to the humanities so that the students can be truly democratic citizens in their
countries round the world.
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