When it comes to the question why receive high education rather than go to work directly after high school graduation, different people have different answers. As far as I’m concerned, I believe there’re three main reasons: the employment advantage created by high education background, the more rewarding compensation the high education background brought and last but not least, the great traits we fostered from the education experience.
In principal, one with a higher education background is more competitive than one without. Within the society develops, more and more people receive education higher than what their parents attained, which makes whom without one less competitive. Unlike the old days when high education was a kind of luxury and college students were seen as superior workforce, nowadays college students are as common as the blue workers in the industrialization age. Hence, as the old Chinese adage-the boat rises with the water-goes, bachelor degree has inevitably become a necessity for a job.
Moreover, a lot of surveys and research show that people who processes a university diploma usually makes more money than who does not. Probably because of the abilities he/she has fostered in classes or the social connections he/she has built in extracurricular activities. Whichever the way it works, there’s a positive relation between education background and future incomings. Therefore, going to college can make up for the possible lost of money earned in the spare years of not going to college.
Besides all the career advantages, going to university is a precious experience one would probably value the most in his/her lifetime as it offers the opportunities for students to find and develop their potentials, to foster and cultivate the traits inside everyone. Nothing can be compared to the moment when one realizes his/her potentials and values and it is universities that provide us a carefree four-years time to going after such a pursuit.
In respect of all the reasons mentioned above, I believe people will have a clearer understanding of why we go to university. It is not only for the purpose of making a living, but also for the pursuit of growing into a better person.