What would Jonathan Swift mock in the modern day?


        In the modern day, I think that Jonathan Swift would make fun of the higher education system and its primary flaws. Mainly for starters the debt that is accumulated in getting various degrees. For a society that is reliant on a successful and potent new generation, there isn't much help being given to receive the proper titles and experience in order to immediately be assimilated into the workforce.

A few decades ago, it was customary for your employer to pay for your master's degree so that way you would be more of a help to the company and get a free education. This practice is no longer customary and hurts everyone involved. Coming out of college you'll be lucky to secure a job with 6 figures right off the bat. The train of thought has turned into profits instead of benefits which hurts almost everyone involved. The idea that you need money to make money has affected many as it greatly limits the capabilities of people all over the world. A great example of this is how families are not able to pick the best school that they have been accepted into, but instead have to pick the most affordable school that they have been given the most scholarships for.

The idea of higher schooling being helpful in the real world would only make sense until it is put into practice as experience in the field is prioritized over experience in the school. As I made in my previous point before there is a very small chance that you will come right out of college making some good money and this all comes back to experience in the field. Coming out of college you need to fight against people who have been in the workforce for years and years but you're coming in fresh, inexperienced, and broke. Overall, the chances that you will reap any benefits coming out of college with a degree no longer holds nearly as much value, and realistically is undervalued.

In the end, schooling is not what it once was and holds a phantom value of sorts. If Swift were to live in our society higher education would definitely be on his list of priorities. Higher education expands to in certain times seem like a money vacuum where it is not the people who are prioritized, but the big corporate businesses and colleges who keep stomping on the inexperienced and broke America.


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