College Education “Is College Worth It”? Not Necessarily, But a Higher Education Is” by Sandhya Kumar is an article about the downfall of the college education system with the recent high schoolers. This article was published on September 18, 2023, at Winthrop House in Cambridge, Massachusetts. In recent years, students have lost interest in receiving a four-year college degree. She talks about her experience as a student who attends Harvard University, located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, but also addresses other students and their concerns with the college system. She is directing her article to students who are losing their faith in a traditional college education, such as graduating high school students, upcoming seniors, students who took …show more content…
Kumar uses his ethos to persuade adults and students to continue to earn a higher level of education, even if they don’t attend college. College isn’t always a fit for everyone, but a higher education can help people to receive a more exceptional paying job. The University of Chicago and The Wall Street Journal conducted a study and found that “56 percent of Americans feel that a four-year college degree isn’t worth it” (Kumar). Americans have realized that a four-year college degree comes with competitiveness in securing a higher paying job, along with the college tuition being high. The long turnaround times for earning a degree and the debt that travels with students years after graduation, students don’t want to have that problem (Kumar). Furthermore, attending college has its perks with different opportunities, but there are more logical ways to receive a higher education. Many Americans don’t obtain a college degree, but Kumar, a first-year college student at Harvard, demonstrates logos when explaining Americans' faith in …show more content…
with practice resources published online for the world to use” (Kumar). Therefore, if a student is motivated to continue to earn a higher education, they will exaggerate their wants. Many people have lost faith in college, but they haven’t lost faith in the education system. Kumdar uses hyperboles to provide the audience with a picture and to make people open their minds and have optimism. She goes on to explain how her younger self would react to her attending Harvard University. She exclaims, “I would have been euphoric to learn this as a third grader when my ambitions to attend a top college first sprung up”(Kumar). For people who have dreamt of going to advanced colleges from a young age to achieve a degree, college has been their biggest goal to attain. Colleges have the means to lead to a high-paying job, a fixed career, and a contented life. Nevertheless, she was called naive for having these dreams or opinions because others had lost hope in college but had not yet lost hope in education as a whole. Nevertheless, people choose not to attend college but continue to learn and improve their knowledge through ethos, logos, and hyperboles. The article “Is College Worth