Caroline Bird College Is A Waste Of Time And Money Summary

In “College Is a Waste of Time and Money,” written by Caroline Bird illustrates that college is not for everyone. There are many reasons that Bird lists so that readers and colleges can understand that tuition is never going to decrease. Bird uses diction, tone, sentence structures, locos, ethos, and pathos to prove that college students attend college hoping to get a better job and people who decide not to go to college do not want to waste their time and money.

In his essay, “Yes a College Education is Worth the Cost,” writer Rodney Smith discusses how students of this generation don’t care about receiving a great education for the future. Throughout his essay he explains how a college education is worth the cost. He stated that people between the ages of 18-34 say they would much rather get a job and make money than spend money to go back to school to obtain a higher degree. Smith’s family grew up in Oklahoma and they viewed education as an investment. Smith was influenced by his father’s upbringing and attended college and law school just like his father. By establishing and building his case about how education is worth the cost, uses a great deal of evidence, his argument is well organized, and he gains the audience’s attention. Background of the author

My whole life I have heard that college isn’t something you think about doing it is simply something everyone must do. I cannot help but believe that there are some very valid points to Professor X’s article. For example, his point stating that some students are simply unfit for the academic level that college requires. The author states, “Everyone wants to triumph. But not everyone can-in fact, most can’t.” (X, par. 47) In other words, Professor X believes that students who so

In her article “College Is a Waste of Time and Money”, Caroline Bird attempts to pursued her readers that colleges are overflowing with students who don’t belong there. Her article first appeared in Psychology Today (May 1975). Since this material is outdated, I find it hard to believe that most of the responses by students and parents quoted in the article still hold true. The author has set out to pursue the readers that college is a bad and unnecessary choice for today’s youth. Yet the author holds a bachelors and a masters degree from two different universities. I would think that if she thought college was really a bad choice and a waste of time and money, she would not have gone back to get her masters degree.

The value of a college education is a topic that strikes debates across the nation. People wonder if the debt and time will be worth in helping them obtain a career to pay off the debt and generate a larger income for themselves than if they did not have a four-plus year college degree. My whole life, I have always valued a college education. At the same time, I know that the higher education is not as important to others. I never understood why someone does not want to obtain a college degree, but after looking deeper into the subject, I understand that money may be one of the biggest setbacks. I decided to research further into the financial reasons that a person may not believe that a college education is with the money. My research

In Caroline Bird’s article, she argues that college is a wasteful investment with no bright future for those who do not wish to be there. In Bird’s article she points out the reasons in which students attend college. The reasons aren’t very complex, in fact, they are quite simple. As she quotes “They are there because it has become the thing to do or because college is a pleasant place to be; because it's the only way they can get parents or taxpayers to support them without working at a job they don’t like; because Mother wanted them to go, or some other reason entirely irrelevant to the course of studies for which college is supposedly organized” (Bird 217). Bird is explaining that students enroll in

Everyone talks about how expensive college is now. How professors don’t care about the quality of the students work anymore. How they find everything they learn boring; and they aren’t paying attention in class. I disagree, if people complain this much about college…. Why do they go? “Nonetheless, there is incessant talk about the ‘failure’ of education” (412) Gary Gutting states in his article “What is College For”. Education isn’t really failing, Gutting is only talking from his perspective in this article, and not the perspective of the actual students who go to college.

            In today’s society, everyone has heard of the saying, “Education is important and college is the key to a well-off life.” Some may think on the contrary that there are other routes that one may can take and still become successful in life as well. College is not the only answer to every individual. Not everybody is academically driven so the topic still appears to be very much controversial. In the essay, “Is College for Everyone, Pharinet articulates her perspective on the reason why she thinks that college is not really meant for everybody. Pharinet presented her side of the argument to her audience by laying out dome persuasive techniques. She uses a mixture or logos, ethos, and pathos to defend her case. Since, Pharinet’s has a background of being a professor, she has some authority over this argument because she has witnessed first-hand on how college students act and interacted with college students before. However, Pharinet demonstrations slight bias perspectives though-out her argument she is very narrow-minded. Even though her arguments are stated clearly she is lacking on her claims she backs up her argument with biased logic, uncited statistics, and a lot of pathos.

In the article, “College is a Waste of Time and Money”, Caroline Bird explains why higher education is not always the right choice for students after high school. The author believes that students do not come to the decision to attend college on their own but they are expected to and pressured by parents, advisors, and society. In the beginning of the article the author argues that colleges use techniques to sell themselves just like any

In Caroline Bird College is a Waste of Time and Money gives a few reasons how we as a general public place excessively accentuation on the significance of school. Be that as it may, here are three reasons some may state school is imperative in the public eye these days .System of contacts, a higher positioning activity, acquainted with being a grown-up. While you shouldn't pay a mess of cash just to have an affair and meet new individuals, the exploratory part of school is essential. Not exclusively will you ideally decide if your proposed profession is the correct fit, however you additionally will figure out how to interface with other individuals. When you get out into the work world, you should know how to coordinate with various identities, and school is an

In her passage she responds to quote “A college education is among the very best investments you can make in your entire life” By stating that “But the truth is not quite so rosy” she goes on to back up her point with these numbers (Caroline Bird). Stating that “If a 1972 Princeton-bound high-school graduate had put the $34,181 that his four years of college would have cost him into a savings bank at 7.5 percent interest compounded daily, he would have had at age 64 a total of $1,129,200, or $528,200 more than the earnings of a male college graduate, and more than five times as much as the $199,000 extra the more educated man could expect to earn between 22 and 64” (Caroline Bird). To come to this conclusion, there had to be a lot assuming and worst case scenarios. Firstly, when talking about the value of college, she used one of the most expensive colleges there was, the average cost of college back then was a mere 1,561 dollars, after accounting for inflation the cost of that Princeton education in 2017 dollars would be over 200,000 dollars. She then goes on to state that “even if we assume that the Census Bureau is correct when it says that as of 1972, a man who completed four years of college would expect to earn $199,000 more between the ages of 22 and 64 than a man who had only a high school diploma” (Caroline Bird). The problem with this is that the average male didn't go to Princeton and

“In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!” ― Spider Robinson (GoodReads.com). While many are excited about starting college and beginning a new chapter in their lives, too often the college freshman wonders “Is all this really worth it?”. Is a college education worth the money spent on tuition and the time used to acquire it? After the prize is won, college degree, often parents wonder if the quarter of a million spent on said education would have been more useful spent elsewhere – especially when their college graduate now works a minimum wage job at the local fast food joint or like Mr. Robinson – working security.

Despite the high price of tuition, College is the right way to go because it will benefit individuals families economically and socially. It will improve individual's professional development as a person in their lifestyle. (Dan Rather) once said “A college degree is the key to realizing the american dream, well worth the financial sacrifice because it is supposed to open the door to a world of opportunity.”

They are often found pondering over questions like, “What actually is the importance of a four year college education?” or “why is it important to attend college?” There are several answers to this question; however the most obvious of these is that attending college exposes students to a chain of widespread opportunities, which might not be available in high school. Generating a stream of income immediately after the high school may seem like an appealing thought to many, but it is not possible on practical grounds. With the limited knowledge and skills that the high school graduate have, it can be difficult for them to survive in the competitive professional

Choices regarding the attendance of college can be challenging for just about anyone. Some believe that the four-year college experience is becoming increasingly obsolete and that it should be reserved for only the brightest citizens as most people are either uninterested or unfit for it. Charles Murray, author of “Are too Many People Going to College,” holds that the system of post-secondary education has become derailed from its initial purpose, and that the failure to acquire a B.A. has become wrongfully stigmatized. (235-244). In contrast, many posit that college is the prime opportunity for people to explore their potential and gain the economic and social liberty that comes with increased knowledge. Michelle Obama, author of the 2013 Bowie State Commencement Speech, asserts that a college education creates the opportunity for an individual to explore his or her own talents and abilities, thus allowing for freedom in career options, greater salaries, sociopolitical involvement, even greater lifespans (289-291). College is as path that everyone with the opportunity and ability should pursue as it allows individuals to cultivate their personalities and expose themselves to subjects not seen in high school, all while creating a firm educational foundation that will aid in the search of jobs and development in careers as well making informed life choices such those pertaining to personal finance and politics.