Rhetorical Analysis Of Not Going To College Is A Viable Option

Every single individual has once heard the words “perform marvelous in school, go to a prestigious college and graduate, in order to get a superior job and succeed in life.” However, no one can really assure that a student with a degree is going to have an exceptional better future than those who do not attend college. Lawrence B. Schlack, a retired superintendent, asserts in his article “Not Going to College is a Viable Option” that to this day colleges are packed with young individuals who are either determined in their career objectives or dubious in what they aspire to do in life. With this in mind, Schlack suggests that college is not the only place to go after high school. By using different kinds of persuasive techniques the author effectively

Schlack uses logos of reasoning and paradigm when he states “I’ve seen too many high school graduates who have gone off to college in September but are back home with mom and dad in December. And I’ve seen those who have made it through the first year but transferred back home to a community college for the second” (Schlack 2). The essence of Schlack argument is that countless number of students who have moved away for college cannot abide with the pressure of their classes and expenses, or the fact of being away from home, and therefore, have come back to their parents before the expected time. Delineating matters further, Schlack writes “And there are plenty of those who have stuck it out for a year or two, changing majors, dropping classes, starting over, racking up debt and finally dropping out—with debt but no degree” (Schlack 2). With this being acknowledged the author describes that there are some other students who have endured college for a year or two struggling with classes, switching majors, and consequently, dropped out, due to uncertainty of their goals and unreadiness to be a college

Schlack himself writes “The go-to-college tsunami has given us colleges full of young people who really don’t know why they are there or where they are going” (Schlack 2). In other words, Schlack correlates students running up to college in masses to the water of a tsunami, which just goes with the flow. The same thing applies to copious high school graduates that in reality do not exactly know what their potential educational goals are. According to Schlack, “Status, economics and competition are three powerful forces behind the pressure to attend college that exists today… Going to college is first class. Not going to college is second class” (Schlack 4). The basis of Schlack’s argument is to elucidate the reasons to which students grow up with the idea that college is their only option because they are told that it will land them a superb job, and thereupon earn more