The Aims of Academic Study and How They Can be Achieved

By miftachudin arjuna - March 09, 2015

Academic study becomes an important issue when people want to pursue a distinctive achievement in their academic life. They also have to consider the aims of academic study in order to ensure having a career or future job, to develop personal growth, and to contribute to the social and economic development of society. In addition, an important query about how those aims can be achieved will be answered by some ways such as thinking about how to develop abilities further, knowing strengths and weaknesses, and approaching subject in depth. The opinion about those aims of academic study may be different between one person to another. Therefore, this essay will focus on some aims mentioned above and the ways that they can be achieved based on writer's point of view.  

Initially, most people pursue a higher level of academic study in order to ensure having a career or future job. It is a general belief that people will be easier to get a job when they have a high level of education. Although there is no guarantee about this statement, nowadays more people tend to pursue for this reason. When we are talking about a career, it means a good career or professional position which people can earn their life through. It can be achieved from the implementation of knowledge, field experience, and how to develop people's ability further not from a series of A* or outstanding grades on a piece of prestigious certificate.  

Next, developing personal growth is also one of important aims of academic study. Education is one way to improve human as a whole from the sides of cognitive, affective, psycho-motor, and holistic. By knowing individual strengths and weaknesses, a person may acknowledge what to do and don't. For example, some people are likely to have a strength of a great achievement in their academic study but they lack affective performance. Thus they must notice more in the improvement of affective one.  

Lastly, educated people are the agents of change which mean to contribute to the social and economic development of society. Every country puts more budget in education because this is the way to change the civilization in the future. When the countries give a good education to their people, there will be a great impact on the countries' development for the entire life. Therefore, there is a need of people participation based on not only their own knowledge but also the depth of study subject.  

To conclude, academic study has an important and significant role in people's life. Having a career and future job, developing personal growth, and contributing to the social and economical development of society are aims of academic study. People may vary in opinion concerning the correct aims of academic study and how they can be achieved.

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