Charles Murray Real Education Analysis

Rodrigo Cubedo
WRT 101
December 4th, 2012

College: Is It Really Necessary? Go to college, get a degree, and find a well paying job. Everybody should be doing this, right? According to Charles Murray apparently not. Murray presented his book “Real Education: Four Simple Truths for Bringing America’s Schools Back to Reality.” (2008) Where he talks about his point of view on higher education; he doesn’t believe it is something everybody should be doing, since not everybody is prepared to attend college and struggle with all that is involved in the process of getting a B.A. Murray, although presenting interesting facts, might or might not be right, because education and success aren’t correlated in their totality. While it is important…show more content…
He believes not everyone should go to college to pursue a major just because they want to make a lot of money. Murray states something that it is true, ‘Young people with okay-but-not-great academic ability who are thinking about whether to go after a B.A. need to consider the competition they will face after they graduate.’(Murray,2008). If all people want to get into the business, finance, and/or management world once graduated they might have a rough time. There are certain skills needed to be successful, even when giving orders to other people. So, thinking that being a corporation manager will provide us with a bigger income than working in an area where we know we are good at, might not be the correct way of thinking it…show more content…
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