Why Should Everyone Go To College

Should everyone not go to college? According to Larry Cuban, District superintendent, and professor emeritus of education at Stanford University, Everone should not go to college. Sounds odd coming from someone who went to college and currently teaches at a University. To persuade the reader, Cuban uses facts and statistics in order to hopefully prove his claim and explain to the reader why he is right. However, the main factors he uses are facts and statistics, which in my opinion, are not persuasive at all, and is just information.

According to Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill, in their essay Should Everyone Go to College?, claim that the return of investment from going to college depends on the degree, institution, and how long a student stays in college. There is a different return of investment for each different degree. For example, according to the graph on page 215, Engineering is paid more than education. Therefore a student attending college for an engineering degree would have a greater return of investment then a student attending college for a degree in education. The return of investment is also dependent on the kind of institution a student attends.

I recently read an essay called “Should Everyone Go to College?” by Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill who write a great argument stating that going to college should depend on the situation instead of stating that everyone should go to college. Stephanie and Isabel go over the rate of return on education through graphs and statistics that show that those that go to college are often time more successful than those that go straight into a career. However, going to college should be dependent on the chosen career path more than anything else because some career paths do not require a college education. Also, the rate of return is a big thing to think about before committing to going to college because paying for college to go into a career that

A Rhetorical Analysis of “Should Everyone Go to College?” Stephanie Owen and Isabel Sawhill’s “Should Everyone Go to College” is broadly argued across the idea that college isn’t the smartest investment for everyone. College can’t just be a pick, choose, then go there sort of deal, it is something that needs to be thought about and carefully observed. There are many factors that go into choosing a college, such as “what’s better, an associates or a bachelor’s” or “how much will college cost?” However, those are just a few underlying factors in considering college.

Most people in the world thinks that a degree is required almost everywhere. In today’s society it is often thought if you don’t go to college you won’t succeed. In Owen and Sawhill’s article “Should Everyone Go To College?” responds to people that either go to college and actually earn a degree or people who do not go to college and are actually saving money. Most reason that college is not always the idea for a student and their families is the cost.

Why College Isn’t Worth It Attending college is something that many High School students look forward to as a buffer or a way to make the transition into adulthood easier, but a rising question has people considering: Is going to college really worth it? While some describe college as their best years, it leaves most attendees in debt and with a degree they may never use. Between tuition fees, traveling, housing, food, and textbooks, all college students are bound to owe at least a few thousand.

College is necessary for success About this topic we learned that college may not be the only determining factor of individual’s success. But it is the most important one. College education enhance the probability of success for an individual in the future in comparison to the self-learners. The formal education received in college is very useful and vital in professional setting. Professions like medicine, finance and criminology are few of many in which formal education is a must, for success.

Every day of people’s lives they are faced with many decisions. Some decisions are much easier than others like what television program they want to watch. Some decisions are even made for them by other decisions that they have already made like what to wear. Depending on the career an individual has chosen it will depend on what that individual will wear to work. Now some decisions are much more difficult than others.

“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world. ”- Nelson Mandela. You have finally graduated from high school after going to school for at least twelve prolonged years. You might question if you should go to college for another four years.

It’s pretty crazy how so much can change over a short span of time. People, places, relationships, perspectives. It’s been a year since I began college at Syracuse University and as I sit in my bedroom back home in Bombay and reflect on the past one year, I have a bag full of memories and experiences. Good and bad of course, because what would life be without a few bumps right? I definitely think that going to college was a significant milestone in my life because I’m an only child and the first person in my family getting an education abroad.