An ideal goal of a university education has sparked massive debates for quite some time. The most cited reason has always been job training, which in most instances, proves unsustainable due to economic uncertainties, especially during recess.
The primary role of education, other than career development, should be the creation of prepared minds capable of navigating the social interactions and challenges from a broader socio-economic and political perspective. Such approach equips students with a progressive knowledge, skills, and talents capable of advancing their independence of thought and opinion that can help them in identifying the most viable adventure worth pursuing (Roth, 2015).
Secondly, a diversified university education enhances the spirits of democracy. It produces law-abiding citizens capable of exploiting their skills, knowledge as well as talents to help others as well as for self. Their individual and cumulative efforts enhance societal existence in such areas as equity, equality and peaceful coexistence. The graduates, in addition, can generate innovations capable of addressing societal problems which, in the interim and long run, reduces societal burdens improving their overall living conditions (Roth, 2015).
However, the cost of education is tremendously high and a burden for the federal government to entirely shoulder regardless of the higher value for investment capital. The cost of education should, therefore, be the priority of an individual. The role of the state should be to provide a favorable environment for academic advancement. A conducive atmosphere may take the form of offering student loans to facilitate successful completion of their courses (Johnstone " Marcucci, 2010). In the long run, the government would have achieved two objectives: recovered the cost as well as created a pool of knowledgeable, skilled and public-spirited individuals and a hope for posterity. Students, in turn, would have succeeded in completed their university education respective of their economic background.
References
Johnstone, D. B., " Marcucci, P. N. (2010). Financing higher education worldwide: Who pays? who should pay?. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Roth, M. S. (2015). Beyond the university: Why liberal education matters. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press.
