Reasons why people attend a university

There are many reasons why people decide to go to study on a university or college. In the past was the main reason that students wanted to know more about the subject, often without any more concrete purpose – they just wanted to know about the stuff as much as possible. However it was before decades or even hundred years and the situation was the same, when we look back to ancient Rome and times when for example Cicero lived – the people studied much more years than now and they traveled far away as they wanted to visit classes of a famous teacher. The fact is that that time or before hundred years, far less people attended a university.

Nowadays it is totally different. Every clever and ambitious person attends a university or college and there are great opportunities for almost everyone. We can choose from wide range of subjects to study, places, institutions, countries, way of studying, teachers, books… And because of that, and many other things, so many people are studying on universities nowadays.

Anyway, what are the reasons of this trend? Probably the main reason is no longer to know everything about subject that we have chosen to study. To my mind, in the majority of countries, the main reason to go study on a university is the fact that if you are graduated, you are something more in the society. You can find a job much easier, you can earn more money, you will be considered as clever and successful person… Everything what I mentioned in the previous sentence is fine, but unfortunately the quality of education is threatened because of this reasons, or not directly by them but by students who see only these things – money and luxuries they could buy if they had good education, then work and they earn lot of money. As a result they often chose a subject to study which they actually don’t like, but the profession is really profitable so why not? In my opinion, it’s bad resolution as far as I am persuaded you just can’t be good at something what you don’t like. And if you want to earn a great amount of money you can’t wake up every morning and think about going to work that you abhor. But if your work is your passion, the profession doesn’t have to be so much profitable by and large, but if you will be successful, because you really care about the result of your work as you like your job, you can become richer than somebody who hates his job but his profession is considered as a profession of the rich.

To sum up, it’s good if the reason of attending a university is also the fact you really like the subject you had decided to study and the purpose is not only money. Because one of the most important things in our lives is to be happy and do what we really like.