Higher Education: Necessity or Luxury?

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The question of the century is whether higher education is worth the price and everyone feels like they have the winning argument. The article I have chosen to write about that pertains to this subject is by Charles Murray and it’s called “Are Too Many People Going to College?” I chose this article because I feel that the author brings up valid points that resonate with me and my beliefs towards going to college. Charles Murray attacks the specific issue of whether there are too many people going to college. Murray using different viewpoints shows how he believes that too many people are going to college and I agree with his reasoning.
The author’s purpose for writing this argument is to depict the different motives and reasons why so many
The author makes the claim that students should learn core knowledge in K-12 instead of going to college to learn this information. Murray goes on to say “Liberal education in college means taking on the hard stuff” (Murray 225) This supports Murrays claim that too many people go to college because people who go to college should already know the basics of each subject area and be ready begin their major of choice. However, students come into college having little core knowledge and spend their first two years learning criteria that should have been taught to them in K-12. I completely agree with this belief because I’m a student and I have classes with other students who haven’t successfully mastered the core knowledge of a subject and end up having poor grades. Therefore, college isn’t worth the price if a person hasn’t yet mastered the subjects covered by core
Murray puts together strong support with keen counterarguments that make his arguments seem reasonable to the audience as well as me. The author is able to cohesively pull together his different main ideas and use them to bring across his main purpose which was to explain why he says too many people are going to college. All in all, Murray does an outstanding job persuading the audience and backing the idea that college is worth the price, but only to those who truly belong

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