What's Wrong With Vocational School By Charles Murray Summary

A man who obtained a B.A. degree in history from Harvard and a Ph.D. in political science from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Charles Murray wrote an opinion piece with the title “What's Wrong With Vocational School,” published in The Wall Street Journal. Murray argues that not every high school graduates should go to a four year college and waste their time. Murry starts with giving his opinion, citing convincing facts and statistics, and employing very few emotional appeals; however, at the end of the piece, his attempts to appeal to logic ultimately weakens his argument. Charles Murray is an American libertarian, political scientist, sociologist, author, and columnist. In the beginning, Murray starts by describing how having an IQ of 100 means that throughout your high school year, you were push to the exact point your academic talents needed to take you. Murray continues by discussing some of the examples of if you average in a …show more content…
Readers can see the problem with students' knowledge once they are out of high school, but his shift from "not all students should to a four year college institute" to "the only thing employer want to know is if you have the paper to say your qualified" makes the reader not take the problem as serious as he does in the end. Murray could have given more information with numbers and statistics to make his audience lean more towards his side of the argument. Without sources and his background, readers do not understand why he is against not everyone go to four year universities. Murray's purpose of this argument was to give readers another perspective on every high school graduates going to college. He want people with IQs to choose other options, because they might misinterpret complex text and make errors in