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Is education losing its value? How and why and remedies if you think so?

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Today, more and more
people
 are attending
third
-level
education
, and many go on to post-graduate
degrees
.
People
 specialize in subjects that were not dreamed of a century ago.
However
, the result has not been an increase in real knowledge, but a cheapening of
education
. In
this
essay
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 I will discuss how
education
 has become devalued.
Education
 is now something that can be purchased. Like a powerful new car or an architect-designed house, a degree or a post-graduate degree has become a luxury that everyone wants. But when everybody has something, that thing becomes worthless. Gold is sought after because it is expensive and hard to find, but if everybody changed their attitude to gold, its value would drop. In the same way,
education
, like the currency of a bankrupt country, is becoming devalued as more
people
 have
degrees
. It takes ever-higher qualifications to get a job. Once a degree-holder was respected and listened to. Now he or she is just another job-seeker or employee. One effect of the rush towards
degrees
 is that knowledge becomes less important. Other factors,
such
 as influence, are more central in getting a job or a promotion when everyone has a qualification. A
further
 point is that
people
 lose respect for themselves. Since everybody has a degree, even degree-holders feel that what they have is almost worthless. More seriously, the pressure to have
degrees
 results in a drop in quality. When thousands of
people
 study in a college, the professors cannot possibly maintain standards.
Furthermore
, we need to question whether advanced
education
 is suitable for everyone. Does our entire population really need to spend years in school and college just to do fairly simple jobs? In conclusion, there are many negative aspects to the increased emphasis on qualifications. If we want to maintain the value of
education
, we need to examine the emphasis we put on
degrees
.
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