Post-secondary schooling touches the lives of all Canadians, and informs and enriches the lives of most. Post-secondary education gives the learner the opportunity to acquire relevant and diverse competencies and skills, for example, academic mastery, technical capability, creativity, innovation, communication, cultural understanding, and sensitivity. But many people including Canadians take the post-secondary schooling for granted. They don't actually take it as a good learning experience instead they perceive the purpose of post-secondary schooling to be …showed first 75 words of 436 total…

…showed last 75 words of 436 total…necessary for her program she is good to go. She is in her third year now but she took humanity in her first year because it was compulsory. She used to say she hated that course and if it wasn't for the credit, she wouldn't have taken it. That's just one example in my family. I'm pretty sure there are so many students out there that perceive the purpose of post-secondary schooling to be credentialism.