Colleges in the Colonial Era (feedback follow the guided)

  
 Guided Response: Review at least two of your classmates’ posts and analyze the connections they have made between the changes that have occurred in higher education during the colonial period and how that compares with the quality of education today. Provide your opinion about the quality of education then and online learning today.  Do you agree or disagree with your classmates’ viewpoints?  Why or why not?  Relate their perspectives to your own. 

Anthony Patrick
In Chapter 1, Thelin (2011) mentions nine surviving colleges founded before 1781: Harvard, William and Mary, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Rutgers, and Pennsylvania. Many feel that these colleges stand out as quality higher education institutions that have acquired prestige and longevity. Do you agree with these viewpoints? Consider how these colleges have influenced perceptions of higher education, the quality of education then, and online learning today?   Relate how these trends and events still impact higher education.
It is safe to say that all parents want the absolute best for their children, especially when it comes to education. I would agree that colleges in the colonial era are exemplified as higher quality educational institutions. Not only are these school presented to be extremely prestige, but these institutions have also preserved a mass amount of historical antiquities and exhibit true American patriotism (Thelin, 2011). These higher education institutions are highly selective and thrive on a large movement of colonial revivalism that fostered high academic honor and well-dignified character. Which explains why many successful and wealthy people are degree holders from these great colleges.
Compared to other American colleges and universities, the Colonial era schools, and deems as educational excellence (Thelin, 2011).  In most cases, other esteemed Universities such as Duke, Notre Dame, and Standford are using the educational methods and pedagogies, of this high prestige institutions, to keep their high academic status to be apart of the “Ivy League” system. These schools are also influencing the competitive perceptions of higher education. Higher Education has become popular and demanding over the last decade. More and more people and job corporations have been requesting that job seekers must have a Bachelor’s Degree and/or a Master’s Degree. Other American colleges are now stepping up their skills, to make sure their students are educationally sound and advanced when it is to start their careers.

Reference
Thelin, John R. (2011). A History of American Higher Education (p. 6). Johns Hopkins University Press. Kindle Edition.

  
Anna Johnson
Many feel that these colleges stand out as quality higher education institutions that have acquired prestige and longevity. Do you agree with these viewpoints? Consider how these colleges have influenced perceptions of higher education, the quality of education then, and online learning today?  
Yes, I agree with the viewpoint given. Many times people were told when they were young if you did have a higher educational degree the job wouldn’t hire you. Currently in our educational system if you have those required documents they don’t even call you back or give you that job. Americans tend to think of colleges as falling somewhere on a vast hierarchy based largely on their status and brand recognition. When thinking about education this level many people just don’t think about the cost and the stress it has on student around the world. The basic thought process of government is to fix things that aren’t helpful to the growth of education. 
Just as the nation “must reinvest in its physical infrastructure — roads, bridges, railways and so on — as a stimulus for communication and commerce of all kinds,” the report reads, “the U.S. should commit to a comparable reinvestment in our existing educational infrastructure, including undergraduate education, in order to realize the productive potential of all Americans” (Flerty,2017).