Theme Of The Key To Success In College Is So Simple It's Almost Never Locateed

In the article “The Key to Success in College Is So Simple, It’s Almost Never Mentioned”, the author Jonathan Malesic, uses Emily Zurek Small’s college success story to support the idea that the best way to ensure that one will reap all the benefits college has to offer is by cultivating the students willingness/ desire to learn. Malesic goes on to explain that two of the biggest issues standing in a person's way of success are careerism and knowingness. Although Malesic finds careerism and knowingness to be the biggest factors prohibiting one's success, he also believes that neither mentality is “fixed”. Because of the economy and culture, he notes that students only focus on honing job readiness skills, instead of actually learning and absorbing

Malesic first successfully displays the problem of knowingness when describing common places or interactions where one may have experienced knowingness. Malesic goes on to explain how regardless of where you look, many people feel they know “everything,” in light of the things they've heard, read or streamed. This was smart of him since it is understandable that with the access we have to technology, people can feel that they have already learned and/or experienced everything. I also believe it was smart of him to note that knowingness is a “danger”, that overpowers even the smartest of students’ ability to address new situations with an open mind, before following up with a story where knowingness limited a students ability to learn. With today's education system, students aren’t aiming to learn; there is almost always competition between students solely for obtaining a letter grade. We are taught that we are only to do one thing - learn, and that there was only one way to do so. Furthermore, if we don't know an answer to every question we are asked, it is believed that we won't succeed. Why is my value/ worth attached to my ability to regurgitate relatively new information taught to me over the course of a week, back onto a sheet of paper. Doing this allows