Are Too Many People Going to College Essay

Murray’s “Too Many People Are Going to College” the author presents an argument that uses statistics and logic to state that some people simply do not need to go to college. All throughout high school, students are told by their guidance counselors and teachers that they should be going to college. Charles Murray states that college could even be detrimental for those who do not need it, but are pressured into it. Throughout the essay the author describes the advantages and disadvantages of…

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,’…

Are Too Many People Going to College? Charles Murray’s article “Are Too Many People Are Going to College?” explains a large point in the life of young Americans. He discuss some needs of our education system, and stated that it needs great improvement. He continued by talking about post-secondary education, how incoming college students come to school for all the wrong reasons, and that taking a step back, rethink, and evaluate their purposes of getting a college degree will be in their…

In the essay “Are Too Many People Going To College, Murray challenges the belief that it is necessary for all students to go to college. He argues that the fundamental and necessary things we should be learning we should already be taught before college. According to Murray every young person is not meant to go to college. He argues that four year colleges don’t make sense as a place to make a living and the three rationales that once existed for going to college have long ago began to fade.…

In his essay “Are Too Many People Going to College?,” Charles Murray suggests that many students have great practical abilities but lack the necessary intellectual skills to go to college. Murray gives the example of a young man who is deciding between being an electrician or majoring in business. Due to his lack of linguistic and logical mathematical abilities, which are required for the business major, the young man should become an electrician instead of going to college. Unfortunately,…

Murray: “Are Too Many People Going to College?” Charles Murray is the author of “Are Too Many People Going to College”. Murray never clearly states a main argument or claim but he does have one. Throughout his essay, Murray answers his own question of “Are Too Many People Going to College”. Charles does this by using subtopics, answering follow-up questions, and giving small hints at the beginning and end parts of his essay. Murray argues that yes, there are too many people going to college,…

go to college because you don’t have a good enough reason to be there? In Charles Murray’s’ article “Are Too Many People Going To College?”, Murray states that too many people are going to college because students are going just to get a better education not for employment purposes. However, there are never too many people going to college, because there is no ending point to a better education. Murray believes that the purpose of college is to prepare for your future job. However, people are…

into our brain that college is the only way to have a good future, but that may not be the case at all. Just ask Bill Gates, Steve Jobs, and Mark Zuckerberg. Although it helps to have a revolutionary idea like these men, it is not necessary. Ordinary people can also achieve success without a college degree. At least, that’s what Charles Murray in his article “Are Too Many People Going to College?”, Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill in their article “Should Everyone Go to College?”, and Mike…

College is something that’s on the minds of many children from a young age; it’s a representation of a sort of promise land in regards to their futures and provides a beacon to guide a narrowly made path. It’s when the children get older and understand their predicament that they begin to question the diverging trails set before them. Everyone initially sets out as a trailblazer with nothing in their way except time itself; it’s when they reach the brick wall of deciding whether or not to obtain…

Children are taught from a young age that going to college will lead to a better life. This thought is to be put into the minds of five-year-olds who don’t know what college is, but they have to go. As those children grow up, they soon learn that there are other paths than just the one leading to higher education; yet even with those doors open to them, they continue onto their path of going to learn more. The pressure to pursue higher education is just a program that has been etched into their…