Rhetorical Analysis Of Are Too Many People Going To College

Going to college and obtaining a degree for an individual's chosen career is just as questionable as to the worth of being in debt and wasting years on useless courses. Some would agree that a liberal degree could be the solution to all of this, and some will oppose the wasted time and money spent on education that should have already been obtained from grade school. In the following articles, Charles Murray ‘Are Too Many People Going to College’ and Sanford J. Ungar’s ‘The New Liberal Arts,’ explain the hardships about the collegiate standards and what it should consist of in order to have an individual’s future successful. Using these rhetorical devices greatly show how the education system in college has been immeasurably depreciated in value and in return caused an escalation of student debt and an insufficient, useless degree.

One of the rhetorical strategies that were used in Charles Murray article, “Are Too Many …show more content…
Everything she does as an attorney or as an elected official should be informed by the kind of wisdom that a rigorous liberally education could encourage. It is appropriate to push her into that kind of undergraduate program. Getting liberal education consists of dealing with complex intellectual material day after day. Dealing with the complex intellectual material is what students in top few percentiles are really good at.

Murray has helped understand that liberal education can go only so far with the student’s capacity. For the student should be interested and natural to the education that’ll be experienced for their degree, in this new portion of their life, college. Liberal education can mold the mentality, but as to Murray, it should be of a time before college to prepare an individual for what is to come. As Murray has stated, liberal education just doesn’t make sense to students whatsoever, mentally