Charles Murray What's Wrong With Vocational Schools Summary

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Sands 1Althea SandsProfessor OlsonENC 110212 February 2018 The Freedom of EducationStudents are allowed the freedom to decide if a college education is necessary for their future. When the first university was first created in 1682, it established a need for a higher education to gain jobs. Yet now, a four year college or university is not the only option to obtain a higher education. There are many alternative routes offered to students that choose not to go to a tradition four year college. There are facilities like technical school, vocational school, or just go straight into the workforce. A higher education is an important tool to success, but college just isn’t meant for everyone. When people decide to

Charles Murray's paper titled, “What’s Wrong With Vocational Schools” discusses that a four year college is not the only way to gain an education outside of high school. “Traditionally and properly understood, a four year college education teaches advanced analytic skills and information at a level that exceeds the intellectual capacity of most people” (Murray, 686). Murray discusses how some students are intellectually incapable of handling a four year college education. “You can acquire more knowledge if it’s presented in a format commensurate with your intellectual skills” (Murray, 686). Students learn better if they are able to learn at their own pace on their own personal intellectual level. In Eric Hoover’s paper titled, “College’s Value Goes Deeper Than The Degree” he stated that “Forty-seven percent [of students] said “[colleges] teach knowledge

Hoover believes that a college education is both an essential part to a students growth personally and intellectually. Yet, there is a large amount of students enrolled in a four year college that are either unqualified or uninterested for it. “People who go to college are not better or worse people than anyone else; they are merely different in certain interests and abilities” (Murray, 689). There are plenty of students who decided to attend a vocational school because they deemed it was a better fit for them and a large amount of those students made a decent living for themselves. College is everyone's go to option when they think about what is after highschool, but it does not always mean it is the best fit for them.Everyone has been placed in a scenario where they have to choose what the next step in their life will be. As seniors in high school, many opt to attend college. Yet, college is just not the best fit for everyone. An education is an essential part of life but a basic four year college is not needed for certain careers. In Pharinet paper titled, “Is College For Everyone?” the author explains why a college education is not always the best option for certain