Caroline Bird College

The true definition of the term 'naysayer' is a person who habitually expresses negative or pessimistic views. This is the way that Caroline Bird looks at college in her essay titled "College is Waste of Time and Money". In this article Bird is very strong willed when stating her opinion about college. She tells her readers that the real reason young adults go to college is because "College is a pleasant place to be; because it's the only way they can get parents or taxpayers to support them without working at a job they don't like; because mother wanted them to go, or some other reason entirely irrelevant to the course of studies for which college is supposedly organized" (247). Bird explains to her readers in a very pessimistic way that going to college to get an education has become very uncommon. She has presented many lecture on college campuses where she has discovered that a very low percentage of students get excited for professors classwork, and that for the other large percentage, college is a social center. In this essay, I will discuss how Bird used naysayer in her essay and her theories on college. …show more content…
Bird makes the claim: "Today students protest individually rather than in concert. They turn inward and withdraw from active participation. They drop out to travel to India or to feed themselves on substance farms. Some refuse to go to college at all. Most, of course, have neither the funds nor the self-confidence for constructive articulation of their discontent. They simply hang around college unhappily and reluctantly." She makes this claim about students not attending college, traveling, and withdrawing because these students are unhappy. The students want to feel needed at college, and that is one thing they are not getting. This is one example of how Bird negative in her article toward receiving a college