importance of higher education

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The importance of higher learning
Introduction
Higher education has been defined differently by many sources. However, the basic definition is that this is education that is beyond the high school level and spans colleges, technical institutes and vocational learning centers. In the contemporary world, higher education has secured a place as one of the most important elements of a quality lifestyle and most importantly securing a decent job. Parents to children who are in high school have particularly placed emphasis on the importance of college education but, even more, intriguing is the major interest in higher education by minority groups such as the Hispanics and African Americans in the United States. When one analyzes college education, they do so by assessing the difference that it has made to the lives of the people in question. Further, most people think that college education not only seeks to improve the academic qualifications of any individual, it also exposes one to great cultural diversity that many analysts think is important in developing cultural tolerance in the world that is more inclined towards globalization. College education is undoubtedly important to any student in the contemporary world ( Apps and Jerold). Perhaps, higher education has sort of taken the place that high school education initially held in the academic spheres making it too essential to skip. This paper majorly explores the…