A Vision of Students Today

Conventional wisdom has it that the best way to be successful in life is to go to college. Within this video “A Vision of Students Today” by Michael Wesch this statement is questioned and put up in the air for debate. We are given facts that seemingly illustrate how education is going astray. Emphasis is put on how much school costs us and at the same time how it isn’t useful in most people’s life after college. One woman was shown holding a sign saying “when I graduate I will probably have a job that doesn’t exist today”. This attacks the relevance of classes today and how they relate to actual society. Also many kids are shown saying things such as “This laptop costs more than some people make in a year” or “after I graduate I will be $20,000 in debt”. The cost for education is getting ridiculous and Wesch is attempting to show it in his video. Overall I take this as an attack directed at the board of education saying we need to totally revamp our educational system. Students are not getting what they need out of college and are in some cases worse off after graduation than they were before.