Summary Of 'Why Everyone Shouldn T Go To College' By Larry Cuban

Going to a four year university seems like the only way a person is to make it in society. Contrary to common thought, Larry Cuban, a former high school social studies teacher, school district superintendent, and professor emeritus of education at Stanford, addresses some key points within his article, “Why Everyone Shouldn’t Go to College”, that favor forgoing college. Cuban gives a few examples, backed with credible information, that support one’s decision to skip out on a conventional college education to focus on alternate routes. With a strong ethos and consistent usage of logos to support his claims, Cuban is able to grasp the attention of his readers and convincingly persuade common thought. Cuban covers the costs of college, associate degrees for non-college students, whiles also including various truths that many individuals of academic authority would not advocate. Cuban’s primary point stems off of the cost of college. These days college is becoming more and more competitive. Some students weigh the option of going out of state, knowing they have a higher chance of acceptance as opposed to staying in state. The problem with that is that out-of-state tuition, let alone in-state tuitions, are …show more content…
Cuban gives the example of Pathways in Technology Early College High School, also known as P-Tech, In Brooklyn, New York. This college alternative is intriguing in the sense that it’s a program backed up by big business firms, like IBM, to train students for entry level jobs within these big companies. The reason this jumps out is because, as Cuban claims, “260,000 college-educated graduates under 30 in California work historically low-paying jobs.” If these associate degree students are automatically starting off with an annual salary much higher than their college educated counterparts, perhaps forgoing college is not that outrageous or delusional if done the correct