College Is a Waste of Time and Money Textual Analysis

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College has been considered a place of education opportunity and a prime personal interest of high school students and high school graduates. Bird (1975), “College is a waste of time and money” discusses why individuals go to college, describes the college-life of students and proceeding with jobs with a college diploma in her article to explain why college is a waste of time and money. Bird fails to balance the pros and cons by limiting her arguments to time and money. Why go to college? This is one topic Bird touches upon in her article, in many instances she has wrote about different reasons why someone may or may not go to college. Bird finds: Students are not in school because they want to be or because they want to learn. 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 getting 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. (p. 251) Bird has not presented a positive reason a person may want to go to college. Bird always states negative reasons of why a person may want to go to college. Bird never states that a person may just ‘want’ to go to college for their own higher quality of their educational advances. Bird accuses the colleges of advertising the fun activities that their college presents. In reality, a college isn’t the culprit to this situation. Movies, media, and society are those who are false representing the criteria of college. School requires a lot of work. Bird suggests that colleges advertise activities that are provided, to lure in the high school student. In actuality, colleges wouldn’t advertise students doing homework or studying. Students want to see what

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