Charles Murray Are Too Many People Going To College Summary

In the article “Are too many people going to college” by Charles Murray, There is a discussion whether there are too many people attending American Universities. It is stated that liberal education has importance, but is it really necessary for everybody who comes out of high school to go to college. Depending on what field you are going to college may or may not be right for you.For some, high school education is enough, but for some people in other fields college is necessary. College is looked at as a safety net where if you go you’ll get a successful job after college, but in reality this is false. There is high competition for most successful jobs after high school. It is a bad idea to make young adults think that after college you will

have a successful job just because you went to college for four years and got a degree. Because there are so many more people in this generation going to college, it makes for more competition which leads to less job rates after college with a degree. Saying there’s too many people going to college is not saying that everyone does not need a certain education. College is to further in a higher more complex notion of education.

some may have reached the education they needed to in high school for the field that they want to go into. Just because an individual does not want to go to college does not mean they are dumb or lazy it just may not be right for them. This article illustrates many repetitions about percentiles of success rates of the competition after college. This is constantly repeated to show the importance of how difficult it is to succeed after college. Murray also uses literary devices such as imagery by making examples of real life situations to get the point across in a more visual way to create a better understanding.Murray Contrast two separate scenarios of going to college and not going to college. He states the pros and the cons and gives his opinion on which one would be better in that person’s situation. These two contrast help Murray get his point across. Marie also uses contrast for different people in different situations. He does this to show that you need to go to college only depending on the situation and what level your field is going to. An anomaly Murray uses is from the text on liberty to get his point across of how different text are useless in

college. This is an anomaly because it does not directly fit with the statements made in this article. Murray also uses the literary device to tell if memorization is really the key core to learning. There is a decent amount of literary devices use to persuade the reader to code change his opinion on whether college is a necessity for every high school graduate. Murray also uses diction in this article, uses words like maturity and laziness to get his point across that not everyone does not go to college will be unsuccessful or they are unmotivated. Murray also uses imagery to show that college isn’t cracked up to what it seems to be. He gives examples and statistics of recently graduated college students who are having a hard time getting employment after college.