Not Going To College Analysis

A Summary of “What’s more expensive than college? Not going to college” The article “What’s more expensive than college? Not going to College” written by Derek Thompson appears in the textbook Read, Reason, Write 11th edition by Dorothy U. Seyler. Thompson, a senior editor at The Atlantic, published this essay on March 27th, 2012. This article’s purpose is to persuade readers that it is worthwhile to go to college. Thompson includes many statistics and graphs pertaining to unemployment and the education status of young individuals around the world to show readers the lack of education in today’s society is costly.
There are 1.2 billion college aged students in the world with poverty, unemployment and lack of education being a concern for this age group. According
Four year universities, community colleges and vocational training are some of the main options people look at when wanting to further their education. Thompson list some experiments being conducted to help education cost such as at MIT offering free online courses, University of Southern California holding online classrooms across the country, and Western Governors University rewarding students for what they are already knowledgeable about. Thompson claims that things can be changed to improve our education performance. He uses a 2009 McKinsey report which shows “if we raised our education performance to the level of Korea, we could improve the US economy by more than $2 trillion” (454). He also suggest improving teacher techniques because a good teacher can provide more knowledge that will help them obtain a higher level of accomplishment sometime in life to earn more money. Derek Thompson asserts that not going to college is more expensive than going to college. He persuades readers by focusing on the idea of unemployment being caused by the lack of education of people all around the