Should the students be required to wear uniform at college?

People ought to decide whether students should wear uniform at college or not. Some people think that wearing uniform is a good thought because it allows everybody to feel equal, while others oppose the idea, pursuing the taken freedom of students. As far as I am concerned, I believe, it is more appropriate to wear uniform at college or any level of schooling.

Firstly, if students are given the freedom to wear what they like, they will for sure spend time on thinking about what to wear next, or how to dress to kill, though it’s plainly futile. It is known that teenagers tend to show off and do every possible thing just to look finer than others. In this baffling worry, they forget that the foremost purpose of going to college is education, not dressing smartly. And to be simple enough I must say, by paying less attention on clothing, one can focus harder on studies, rather than being busy in choosing the best to be dressed to the nines.

Another good thing about it, is that students do not bother to buy fashion and expensive clothes, and won’t go for shopping every other day! A positive point for parents I believe! Obsession of fashion in colleges ruins students’ mind-set and grades equally. Students who can allow their selves to wear fashion clothes can upset and discomfit those students who haven’t got enough money to buy them. Thus, uniform can help the poverty-stricken students to avoid uneasiness imparted from the side of their moneyed classmates. And so, similarity in appearances depicts an atmosphere of equality. As Sir Robert Baden Powell says and I quote, “The uniform makes for brotherhood, since when universally adopted it covers up all difference of class and country “.  Although mediocrity in status must not be an issue among students, but every one of us knows how students fail to understand this fact and drown into inferiority complex.

I strongly believe that a defined uniform helps to develop an understanding of self-discipline as well, which will help us in future. Let’s take an example; if going for an interview to get a job, it would be ridiculous to come in jeans with a bright yellow t-shirt and sneakers, isn’t it? No doubt! It will be absurd. We should know the scope between official and unofficial styles, and that is what a uniform teaches us. Being deliberate and organized!

Some people believe that wearing a same dress daily makes the students’ mood dull and takes away their right to express their personality in terms of appearances. And to give it a second thought, it is believed that freedom of students is taken from them by forcing them to wear uniform. But does the expression of personality merely depend upon dressing attractively and fashionably? No. Wearing a tidy, creased uniform equally shows how precise and groomed you are!

I would like to conclude with a wonderful quote of Block Floro, which lets us know how the uniform of any institution makes up a community and makes the members of that community responsible for the respect and name of the institution. Block Floro says and I quote, “We didn’t play as a team. So we got together and decided to wear our uniforms to school today. We wanted to do it together, as a team.”  Therefore, I think we should keep to the uniforms at college level even, so that we raise more responsible and professional citizens of tomorrow.