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1: Some people think that university graduates should earn a higher salary than less well-educated peers. What is your opinion? The answer to this question depends on the kind of work involved and I don’t believe that a taxi driver with a degree should be paid more than other taxi drivers without degrees just because he went to university. But university qualifications are a legal requirement in many fields and in these cases I agree that a graduate should earn a higher salary than less well-educated peers. Such legal requirements have been by the government for a reason and the work involved is generally of a complicated or demanding nature that cannot be safely or adequately performed by those who have not completed the requisite study and training. Doctors, for example, are paid well because the knowledge and skills they have acquired through many years of training enable them to do a highly important and potentially dangerous job. Another justification for graduates earning a higher salary concerns the ever-increasing cost of university study and the time and effort that must be devoted to its successful completion. Thousands upon thousands of dollars must be spent in some cases to complete a degree and no one would be willing to make such an investment without the incentive of a good salary upon graduation. The unpaid nature of university study can also demand the endurance of great poverty and this is another reason why graduates should be compensated for the sacrifices they have made. High salaries should not be considered a matter of automatic entitlement for graduates but they are certainly justified when entry into the position concerned is restricted to those with the appropriate qualifications. 2: Should the goal of college education be to ensure that the students find a good job or should it aim at cultivating the students’ overall abilities? The two goals mentioned above need not be seen as incompatible in my view. Rather, they should be