University Career Advantages

An Essay on Advantages of a University Career

In these days, mere university education has come into disfavor. It is no longer paying the dividend that it once used to pay. It gives no guarantee of a successful career. The university student is supposed to develop a snobbish attitude to all kinds of non-intellectual occupation He thinks it beneath his dignity to be a mechanic or a shop-keeper. Hence it is suggested that ordinary students should do well not to go up to the university after completing their school course, this opinion is freely expressed in many influential quarters.

To some extent this is true, but it is not the whole truth. The struggle for existence has struck at the root of all snobbishness. One cannot afford to stand on one's dignity when one has to face the problem of keeping body and soul together. Hunger and want are mighty levelers and therefore we see young men, of what used to be called the bhadralog class, now taking to all kinds of manual employment. This makes the demand for university education somewhat less imperative than it

In most cases it will be found that a university man is more restrained in speech and behavior. He has a tradition to uphold, a good name to maintain. In other words, university-education helps the development of character and personality. A university man is known by his finished manners, by a sense of the seemliness of things as well as by a certain quality of bearing and conversation. "Our studies pass out of sight into character", said a Roman. And the assertion is or should be true of the man with a background of university education. He avoids unnecessary rudeness. He is, on the whole, more likeable than a non-university man. Thus, in the long run, a university builds up national culture, and gives a healthy direction to national character. "It is in universities that the soul of a people mirrors itself" said Lord