高等教育 读大学是否还值得 文本.docx

Higher education高等教育Is college worth it?读大学还值得吗？Too many degrees are a waste of money. The return on higher education would be much better if college were cheaper太多的学位只是浪费金钱。如果读大学更便宜，高等教育的回报会更高WHEN LaTisha Styles graduated from Kennesaw State University in Georgia in 2006 she had $35,000 of student debt. This obligation would have been easy to discharge if her Spanish degree had helped her land a well-paid job. But there is no shortage of Spanish-speakers in a nation that borders Latin America. So Ms Styles found herself working in a clothes shop and a fast-food restaurant for no more than $11 an hour.2006年当 LaTisha Styles从 佐治亚州的 Kennesaw州立大学毕业的时候，她欠下35000美元的学生贷款。如果她的西班牙语学位能够帮助她获得报酬优厚的工作的话，债务会很容易偿清。但在这个与拉丁美洲接壤的国度，从来不缺能说西语的人。所以Styles女士为了每小时不高于11美元的薪水，沦落服装零售和快餐店。Frustrated, she took the gutsy decision to go back to the same college and study something more pra/gmatic. She majored in finance, and now has a good job at an investment consulting firm. Her debt has swollen to $65,000, but she will have little trouble paying it off.受挫碰壁的她勇敢地作出决定，重新回到大学学习更为实用的课程。她主修财务，现在在一个投资咨询公司得到了一份好工作。她的学生债务“膨胀”到65000元，但在未来偿清债务问题不大。As Ms Styless story shows, there is no simple answer to the question “Is college worth it?” Some degrees pay for themselves; others dont. American schoolkids pondering whether to take on huge student loans are constantly told that college is the gateway to the middle class. The truth is more nuanced, as Barack Obama hinted when he said in January that “folks can make a lot more” by learning a trade “than they might with an art history degree”. An angry art history professor forced him to apologise, but he was right.正如Styles的故事表现的这样，对于“读大学是否值得？”这个问题并没有简单的答案。有些学位物有所值，而有些则不是。美国的在校生们在权衡是否要背上巨额学生贷款负担时， 经常被告知大学是通往中产阶级道路的门户。而事实更为微妙，正如奥巴马1月讲话中暗示的那样，相比获得一个艺术史学位，通过学习一门技术“人们可以赚得更多”，。一位愤怒的艺术史教授要求他道歉，但奥巴马是对的。College graduates aged 25 to 32 who are working full time earn about $17,500 more annually than their peers who have only a high school diploma, according to the Pew Re