Cause and Effect World War 2

¶ … College and High School Life

High School and College education are the last two phases in an individual's life as one prepares to go and live in the 'real world.' These phases in an individual's educational development is necessary to make a person well-equipped with the necessary tools that all people need in going through life in the real world: knowledge and skills. Through knowledge and skills, an individual can develop himself better, and what better way to become successful in the real world but to live high school and college life in the most productive way as possible.

Although high school and college education are both part of an individual's educational development, they vary in treatment and scope of learning of an individual. In comparing these two educational developments, three important classifications are important: first, the scope of educational learning of an individual, second, the degree of social interaction required in studying and living through the educational phase, and lastly, the application of the skills and knowledge acquired in an individuals' learning process.

The scope of learning in high school is easier than in college. In high school, what an individual learns is a general, comprehensive view of the basic and important studies in the world. These important studies are the humanities and the arts, the social and natural sciences, and the application of these skills (humanities and the arts and the sciences) into technological innovations. While the science-art dichotomy prevails in the present educational system, the infusion of technology as an essential study of learning is already discussed in high school. Although the scope of learning in high school is wider than in college, the discussion of each topics or studies is shallower, or more integrated than that of college. While high school studies dabbles with these important studies in an informative manner, college education deals with a specific subject or area within a particular study. As an illustration of this point, take for an example a comparison between a high school and college student studying for a biology class. While the high school student studies biology in a comprehensive manner, that is, an infusion of both botany and zoology, a college student will study biology in terms of either the zoology or botany area. It is evident that in high school, knowledge and skills learned are more general and broader in scope, while college students have more defined, intensive, and specific topics to study and master.

One similarity between high school and college education is in the method of instruction. One of the traditional systems of educational institutions is the teaching of one teacher in an average of about 30 or less students. However, the treatment of teachers to their students and their studying differs in high school and college. In high school, students are 'spoon-fed' by the teachers regarding a subject matter, while college students are expected by their professors to have learned the material or subject or at least have knowledge of the subject before attending the class. High school education is more lenient and expectations from the students are low, while college education is stricter, and students are expected to perform and study in advance by their professors.

Social interactions in high school and college also differ. In high school, the students' social life is limited and restricted within the confines of their school, while college life is more diversified and has a wider scope of social interaction. In high school, almost everybody knows everybody, and organizations are clubs are formulated for the development of an individual in both the academic and social aspects of learning. In college, organizations are established not only to contribute to the development of an individual in the academic aspect, but organizations and clubs are established to specifically offer an individual an option to interact with people with whom he/she has particular interest. Because college education is a lot bigger and more diversified in population, social interaction is difficult to get by; clubs and organizations are ways in which an individual can enrich his/her personal development as a person. Social interaction also ranges in age and educational attainment in college life. In high school students are often acquainted with teachers and schoolmates only, but college life introduces an individual to all kinds of people, people of various races and nationalities, opinions, beliefs, areas of study, and character and attitudes.