Rhetorical Analysis Of Why College Should Be Free

Many students don’t get the chance to further their academic career after high school. Some aren’t able because child care is too expensive or they have to work to support themselves. Everyone should get money for school if they need it. Some parents can’t afford to help the students pay for college, while others can. Money should be given for need rather than want. But I believe there should be stipulations to getting the free schooling. College should be free to those who want to get a degree and need the funding.

“An ignorant population is the blind instrument of its own destruction” -Simon Bolivar, Venezuelan liberator of Spanish rule. Educating ourselves will improve the life quality in our population through increasing equality among the people. Therefore, it will develop a stronger country.

In “College Is a Waste of Time and Money,” written by Caroline Bird illustrates that college is not for everyone. There are many reasons that Bird lists so that readers and colleges can understand that tuition is never going to decrease. Bird uses diction, tone, sentence structures, locos, ethos, and pathos to prove that college students attend college hoping to get a better job and people who decide not to go to college do not want to waste their time and money.

Financial issues has caused tension, stress, and pressure upon the parents who are paying for their students to go to college. The low-income are working night and day to barely support the family and their needs and college seems like a huge financial burden. Most parents want a better future for their children which is by going to college, but being able to afford college is a huge issue. Hollis Phelps, an assistant professor at University at Mount Olive, noticed an issue regarding affordability in some of his classes. As he interacts with his students to gain a better understanding of the debt crisis, he realizes that its more serious than it looks As Phelps noted on the academic journal, “They just come from homes that couldn’t afford to put money into a college savings account” (Phelps). The independent, having no support from parents, have to pay for college by working long shifts. That does not include paying the bills, shelter, food, and many other essentials. College, not supposed to be visualized as an obstacle, but instead a path to success to a better life needs some

Many students struggle and struggle to pay their loans back, some even into their late fifties. This both our faults and the governments fault. If tuition wasn’t as high we wouldn’t have so much debt, but again it was our choice to sign the papers for a lifetime of paying back the cost of our education. We value education, and that is why we agree to pay as much as we do. We hope to further our education so that somewhere down the line it pays us more than it originally cost. Because the more degrees we have, the better chance we have at a better job. But the government is responsible for raising their prices on tuition. By raising our tuition the teachers got raises on their checks. But sometimes our debt isn’t always worth it, a good amount of students drop out from college each year without finishing their degree but they still have to pay for the classes they took even though it doesn’t benefit them in the end because they have no degree. (Sam Adolphsen, 183)

Bruenig made a credible argument through pathos with Free College being unfair by giving rich student and their parents a better advantage in finance than a poor family. From rhetor point of view, the appeal to his audience with the unfair justice toward low-income student face having free college doesn’t make it fair between the rich and the poor, Bruenig brought in facts to catch the reader's attention by illustrating, how rich students have a bigger advantage than the poor students. Rhetor emphasized, “But even reasonably accounting for those kinds of responses, the primary result of such increased student benefit generosity would be to fill the pockets of richer students and their families(3).” Rhetor illustrated, with college and the

I am sure to many of us here, free college sounds like a great idea right?

Many people complain about the high tuition of college, and it is actually one of the main reasons that people choose not to attend college. Responding to this issue, both Cottom and Guinier think that higher education is economically unfair to students from different family backgrounds, specifically, to those students whose families do not have much money. In “Why Free College is Necessary”, Cottom harbors the view that even college is free, only the top class of students will benefit; when Guinier provides some countering points in “Ivy League’s meritocracy lie”, they share agreement on that higher education is absolutely unfair even tuition is free because of the cost of preparation and the condition of the students. Firstly, both of them agree that the preparation for college is hard.

There is an argument prevalent in political America which states that tuition for public colleges and universities should be free to all who desire to attend. These politicians drive compelling arguments for this, considering that college degrees are highly recognized as a trait of qualification for individuals in every field imaginable. It would seem at the outset that if everyone was able to become more qualified, everyone could make more money, and the economy could thrive under more a more highly-educated population. Unfortunately, this dream is just that—a dream. Those who make the argument for tuition-free college fail to recognize the basic principles of supply and demand that drive the business of education and employment in this nation.

One of the biggest controversies in today's political party is whether community college should be free. This issue was mainly brought up when Democratic party nominee Bernie Sanders stated that if he was to become president all U.S. citizens would have access to free public college education (Sanders). Prior to Sanders proposing this policy, President Barack Obama previously broadcasted his free community college plan called "America’s College Promise", which would offer free tuition for two years at community college to students who keep up a grade-point average of 2.5 or better, as well as who graduate within three years (Llenas). Of course the term "free college" is music to every student’s ears.

To whether or not college tuition should be free, is an argument often brought to the table. On average college tuition is fourteen thousand dollars, more than the average person’s car. In 1963 the cost of college wasn’t even close to that, a student could work a summer job (an estimate of 13-14 week) and be able to afford college. The cost of college is rising faster than minimum wage, it is a race in which those who make fifteen thousand annually are majorly trailing behind. You may ask what has happened to change the tuition from being able to afford college by working a minimum wage job for 14 weeks to now in 2016 when you are still paying off student loans ten years after graduation. It is that state legislators have cut funding from schools,

The United States government in total spends around “$247 billion per year” on college grants and loans (Kamenetz). Imagine this: an 18 year-old fresh outta high school has two opportunities- to go to a free community college, or a high tuition university. They decide to go with the obvious choice, the free community college. After a year, their grades utterly low, and they drop out. Why is this? Public college should not be free because it would have to be paid for by the federal government and taxpayers, it reinforces the same standards for overpriced education, and lowers the chances of student success.

Do you know anyone who would like to go to college and get a degree and then get a good job to do their part for society but they can’t because they do not have the money to pay for college? Today in 2017 in-state tuition for the university of KY is $6,626 per semester for an undergraduate, and that includes the tuition and fees plus books and supplies. Out of state tuition for the university of KY is $30,928 per semester and that includes your books and supplies, tuition and fees plus your living costs. I feel that people not having the money for college is a major issues all around America and I therefore think that the government should provide free college for first-time college students to get their bachelors and masters degree. Some might argue it is just an excuse for people to party, this is why I also feel that there should be regulations that you must abide by.

The overall purpose of this paper is to convey the controversial topic of free college education. The paper reviews six published articles that report on results from online research. Going to college should be a right not a privilege, and unfortunately students who are not as wealthy are denied from college due to the high expenses of it. Ellison researched the increase in student loans and discovered that 38 million American students owed more than $1.3 trillion in student loans last year. This article stated multiple reasons for free college education. Other articles offer similar results.

Student Loans have been around for fifty-three years and a great deal of citizens of the United States wants to terminate them. A great majority of people argue that college should be free since college is a necessity for building a career. On the other hand, others believe college should still be a person’s responsibility to pay for since it is optional to obtain certain jobs in the workplace without it. College should be free and there are three fundamental reasons that will support this thought: rising college cost, government funding programs, and the necessity of college for a future career.