The Similarities between Bird’s College is a Waste of Time and Money and Perry’s Examsmanship and the Liberal Arts

William G. Perry Jr. and Caroline Bird, both have their own perspective on our education system. Based on their essays, Examsmanship And The Liberal Arts: A Study In Educational Epistemology and College Is A Waste Of Time And Money written by the authors above respectively, views ranging from one end to the other end of the scale were found. Although there is a huge contradiction between Bird and Perry’s idea, there are some thoughts …

…definitely has its pros and cons. But I think that college is what you make of it. It can be the best time of your life, but only if you want it to. You could take the pessimistic view about it and think that college is a waste of money, or it can be looked at as a challenging and exciting new frontier that will basically set the precedent for the rest of your life.