With an increasing number of students choose to go to college, the debate whether there are too many people going to college is becoming more fervent. In this article, a scholar at the American Enterprise Institute, Charles Murray shares some thoughts from different perspectives. He clearly states that, by saying too many people are going to college, he means people should not wait until college to learn the core knowledge. That is to say, most core knowledge should be learned starting from elementary school to K-8 grades. Furthermore, high school should have more survey courses like humanities and social sciences. Within the introduction, Murray states that, “More people should be going to college, not fewer. Yes and no,” (Murray 235).
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There should be more paths available for students to achieve academic goal other than college. Society should meet different people’s utility without a single approach. Society requirement restricted student’s options to explore other valuable things they can do as well. In all honesty, students should pursuit to learn things they like but not to force them to do so. Opportunities to go to college should always be more than needed, but whether going or not should be entirely on our hand without outer factors. There should be no one exact measure of liberal education, which means “a course of education suitable for the cultivation of a free human being”. Instead, we should develop more methods of learning in the future to promote education diversity. Also, the increasing cost of going to college is becoming impractical. Today there are a large number of opportunity apart of college for young people outside the society, however, these opportunities are often ignored or not recognized. For example, there are six months certificates which are flexible and open a real short path to a career. Meanwhile, community colleges and vocational schools, two phenomenal avenues to the middle class, are ignored. Many people are really interested by this alternative rather than spending four years in college to learn. Furthermore the percentage of Dropout in college is still high in American. A study shows that only fifty percent of America students entering a …show more content…
The essence of author’s argument is that “not everything that it is cracked up to be” (Murray 245). He uses nice flow to follow his argument that, many people spend a lot of time in college before to graduate, but at the same time college degree does not guarantee today a job at its value. This structure draws audience’s attention, who presumably are either college students or soon-to-be college students. This is evident on page 242 where Murray describes a student deciding to either go to college or stay back and become an electrician. He describes the student by his actions, showing that the student had looked up the wages of an electrician, cost for college, and sensible job security (Murray 241-245). He will also gain intrinsic rewards that could possibly be higher than if he became a manager. Murray states that due to the best interests of the students, their decision whether or not to go to college should not be looked down upon (Murray 247). I believe he has a valid point by stating that. His accurate description of the student and vivid imagery effectively place the audience into his shoes. They see the viewpoint of the young student as a contrast to his or her own views. As it turns out, the hypothetical student is likely to make even less money if he went to school rather than become an electrician, due to the astronomically
There should be more paths available for students to achieve academic goal other than college. Society should meet different people’s utility without a single approach. Society requirement restricted student’s options to explore other valuable things they can do as well. In all honesty, students should pursuit to learn things they like but not to force them to do so. Opportunities to go to college should always be more than needed, but whether going or not should be entirely on our hand without outer factors. There should be no one exact measure of liberal education, which means “a course of education suitable for the cultivation of a free human being”. Instead, we should develop more methods of learning in the future to promote education diversity. Also, the increasing cost of going to college is becoming impractical. Today there are a large number of opportunity apart of college for young people outside the society, however, these opportunities are often ignored or not recognized. For example, there are six months certificates which are flexible and open a real short path to a career. Meanwhile, community colleges and vocational schools, two phenomenal avenues to the middle class, are ignored. Many people are really interested by this alternative rather than spending four years in college to learn. Furthermore the percentage of Dropout in college is still high in American. A study shows that only fifty percent of America students entering a …show more content…
The essence of author’s argument is that “not everything that it is cracked up to be” (Murray 245). He uses nice flow to follow his argument that, many people spend a lot of time in college before to graduate, but at the same time college degree does not guarantee today a job at its value. This structure draws audience’s attention, who presumably are either college students or soon-to-be college students. This is evident on page 242 where Murray describes a student deciding to either go to college or stay back and become an electrician. He describes the student by his actions, showing that the student had looked up the wages of an electrician, cost for college, and sensible job security (Murray 241-245). He will also gain intrinsic rewards that could possibly be higher than if he became a manager. Murray states that due to the best interests of the students, their decision whether or not to go to college should not be looked down upon (Murray 247). I believe he has a valid point by stating that. His accurate description of the student and vivid imagery effectively place the audience into his shoes. They see the viewpoint of the young student as a contrast to his or her own views. As it turns out, the hypothetical student is likely to make even less money if he went to school rather than become an electrician, due to the astronomically