Study of methods, theories of teaching and learning, the process of training and developing the knowledge, skill, mind, and character builds the structure of what is said to be education.  Students’ growth, knowledge of mind, develops through progression and forms the greater aspect of what the purpose of a college education could in fact be.
    College education gives students the benefit of being successful in life.  It basically guides the students to learn and to progress in the area of study by choice. High school graduates were taught basic education, such as: math, science, language arts, english, and social studies. When students attend to college, all of that education transfers to college basic education, which will lead to a specified subject in the area of a major.  The specific subject selected is the body of the major, a field of study in which a student specializes and receives a degree.  With a variety of courses, students are able to engage into the careers they strive for.  I believe that the future career is essentially the purpose of a college education.
    Many students attend to college for several reasons; based on scholarship programs, proximity to home, importance of family, to receive a higher education, or because they are forced to.  There are absolutely more reasons why; however, most people go for those particular reasons.  Some students attend to a specific college to fit their needs in their choices of major and career.  Based on the major intended, students take certain classes to meet their requirements.  In each class students are taught what is needed, and those classes gradually begin to tie into their choice of major.  But what are students being taught and do they actually learn from the classes they take?  
        Many college classes are lecture classes, where the professor stands up in front of   the class and lectures about the subject being taught.  Then there are discussion classes where students are involved in with the whole class for discussion.  For every different method of teaching, students will acquire the information needed.  But do students take the time to learn or do they memorize what is being taught for a test, then forgetting the information?  Referring to Paulo Freire’s “banking” concept of education, he states;   “Education becomes an act of depositing in which the students are the depositories and the teacher is the depositor” (Freire, Paulo 1).   Banking education is referring to how students learn, based on a system of teaching, and communication.   Freire expresses how education is like a bank, in which teachers make deposits in a way of giving information to the students.  Then the students receive the information and they memorize, and repeat the information as if they have deposited information.
        I agree with Freire’s “banking concept of education”, I believe that students don't in fact learn the material.  Students only take in what they need to know for an exam.  They don't necessarily learn, they memorize facts and they will soon forget what they have memorized.
        I chose to have a college education for many reasons.  While growing up, education has been the most important thing in my family.  My father had always stressed about how it is important to graduate from high school and to have a college education.  Since I was a kid, I have always told myself that I would attend to a four- year university college.  I have always felt like I needed to go to school, so I could get an education.  I am now going to a university where I could further my education.  I believe that a person should continue to pursue more education by going to college. I consider the purpose of a college education is the get a higher education, to get a degree in a major and to develop skills needed to follow a career.  

Work Cited  

Freire, Paulo. “Pedagogy of the Oppressed.”  New York: Continuum Books, 1993