“The reason you go to college is to get a good job,” we are told our whole lives by parents, teachers, and friends. “To get a good job,” they repeat countless times, engraving into our young minds that there is no reason to take “bird” courses like Creative Writing or Introduction to Music when classes central to a profession, like Biology and Science Accounting must be taken care of. “You have to go to a good school to get a job that allows you to earn a lot of money,” they tell us, citing the rising cost of living in the United States of America. They seem to forget that the imperfect democratic society we live in, where the economic gap between poor and rich grows wider every day, can be closed. During my short time at Yeshiva University, I struggled mightily with the idea of ​​higher education. What's the point? Why am I here? Is college here to expand my intellect and help me become a mature adult, or is it simply a stepping stone into the world of work? After reading the 2011 Pew Research study “Is College Worth It?” along with “What Is College For” by Gary Gutting and “On The Uses of a Liberal Education” by Mark Edmundson, I was able to come to the conclusion. Yes, university can and should be used to learn the skills necessary to carry out a profession, however, the main reason why specialized institutions of higher education exist is to “nurture a world of intellectual culture” (Gutting) and contribute to provide the tools needed for young thinkers to make society a better place. For me, university has always been a place to go to learn a profession and, in the future, use this profession to make money. If you want to be a doctor, go to medical school. If you want to be a lawyer, go to law school. I, along with 47% of Americans, believe that “the primary purpose of college education is to teach job-related skills