Summary Of Charles Murray Are Too Many People Going To College

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The article Are too many people going to college sheds light on why only a handful of most intelligently able students should go to school in many respects. The main points Charles Murray makes in the article are that college is too intelligent demanding, and it’s not necessary to attend physical college simply for making a living. He splits the passage into five parts and backs up each part with relatively convincing facts and statistics and applies various rhetoric appeals and reasoning to the passage. However, he establishes an ethos as a prejudiced libertarian from his other works and somehow diminishes his credibility. In this essay, we will discuss how Murray’s ethos plays on the persuasiveness of his article and how he develops his ideas …show more content…

He breaks down the article into 5 parts, each of which with a subheading—liberal education in college, for leaning how to make a living the four-year brick-and-mortar residential college is increasingly obsolete, college isn’t all it’s cracked up to be, intrinsic rewards and the dark side of the B.A. as a norm. At first, he asserts that instead of getting liberal education, students tend to choose more vocational courses that are pertain to their career interest. Then, he goes to another extreme, that if college serves a utilitarian purpose for students like this, physical colleges could be in place of virtual ones since resources are reachable through Internet. And then, by providing statistics, he furthers his statement, declaring that college degree is no longer an economic premium. In order to robust his argument, he stuns us by proving that college graduates risk having lower intrinsic rewards than high school graduates. At the end of the article, he mentions the dark side of B.A. where the social system and our educators are in play and students are merely led by the nose. Such arrangement is wise, since the author arranges supporting ideas in a progressive way, rather than juxtaposition way, leading audience to follow him and being persuaded by degree. Apart from that, his delivery is logical, coherent and nearly covers all aspects so that it is made to be a persuasive