Sunday, September 14, 2014

As we move forward into the information and communication technology we are finding new and creative ways to use information and because of this there has been a high demand For knowledge-based skills, which is putting a new and more important value on education. The Pew research center has estimated a higher demand for workers with college degrees, which is expected to increase in the future. But with the cost of college going up and with the lack of jobs on the market the younger generations are wondering if education still even have value. Education is the main source for security for a future, without it, we create a greater risk of people who are disenfranchised. So in today's time what do we value? It seems that More people are looking to invest more time in work experience. Even though gaining work experience may not be connected to your future plans or may pay poorly, getting a job in a field you're interested in can actually prepare you for your profession.
Before the era of information technology, knowledge was largely centralized in the Universities so if you wanted to gain the education necessary to obtain a middle-class job you needed to go to college and the government pay you to go to college through programs like the GI Bill. But somewhere along the way things begin to change, college tuitions started rising more than the cost of living and wages stopped increasing making the value of education questionable. The quality of college education begins to decline and employers started to realize that doing well in college did correlate with doing well in the real world the old system started breakdown. With the establishment of the Internet only has education been decentralized it has also decentralized the medias well the Internet is now one of our primary sources of information.
Young Chop, who gained notoriety and success while he was still in high school, says he dropped out a few credits short of a diploma. Why?

"I moved to L.A.," Young Chop says in an interview withVladTV. "I stayed there for like a year. So, I'm like, 'Man, it is what it is with that shit.' I found out that school really is not...I don't want to put no bad image on it...But school wasn't really for me. It's not for everybody. That shit is not for everybody, bro. I'm telling you...I got a couple friends that went to college and dropped out of that shit because...it wasn't meant for them. That shit ain't for everybody." 

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