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Who's The Artist Crafting the Model Citizen

The question, "are you living the good life?" has many different answers. There is not one defined response to the question because a good life is relevant to a person's outlook. The factors to a good life are indeed are based on big factors, some of them being, spirituality, emotional outlook, and ethics. These factors all have different meanings to different people. Colleges are supposed to shape and mold us into model citizens to go out and be ready for life; but not only do they need to do that they need to give us the tools to have a good life. 

In the piece, The Good Life, the author speaks about Chapman University not properly preparing its students for the world. She writes about Chapman not teaching students enough moral and ethical values. The problem with these statements is that everyone has different thoughts on what values should be taught. You can't teach Christian values to someone who is Muslim, it just doesn't make sense. People are going to expect different things out of life and live their lives accordingly. 

It is a college institutions job to equip us with the knowledge we need in order to be successful in our fields of our choice. No institution really has the rights ,unless it is a private religious one, to teach you values that to them seem to be true. You cannot put that responsibility on an institution that is bound by law to not impose beliefs upon its students.

Chapman University is a great college whose atmosphere is perfect for personal growth by way of learning from the student body. You must grow up and make life what you want it to be and use the tools Chapman, or any University for that matter, gives you. High School was the time for teachers to tell you how to act and conduct yourself. College is a time to take what you have learned and model yourself how you want using the faux workplace that is given.

The problem with students with the view point that comes from the piece, The Good Life, is they want to be told how to live. Expecting to come to college and learn moral fiber and ethics is obscene. Most of your beliefs are instilled in you way earlier than the age of eighteen. We must learn to be self sufficient. We need to make our own future and not put the responsibility of our future in the hands of the institution simply here in order to give us specialized information on what we think is a good career choice. Once this is done we can truly appreciate what a university, like Chapman, can really do for us.