Charles Murray is a political scientist who effectively states his opinion through his article “Are Too Many People Going to College?” in which he describes what is wrong in attending college for four consecutive years. He believes that “the internet has come to revolutionize learning in a way that makes “brick and mortar residential colleges increasingly obsolete” (Murray 3). Murray came to the conclusion that attending a four-year college or attending a residential college has become out of date through the progressing years because of the many technological advances. Murray argues that college is unnecessary for many because of their academic insufficiency and the technological advances that make residential college unnecessary, although this could be true for some it is not for all.
Murray believes that to pursue professions such as journalism, accountant, software designer or even a social worker, it would be unnecessary to attend four years of college, since most of the competence would be acquired through the job. He goes on to say that many of the college courses offered can be merged into a shorter learning period because many of the required courses don’t engross students to their specialty. He says that “occupations for which “knowing enough” requires 32 courses …show more content…
He argues “the rational for a physical library is within a few years of extinction, the internet provides access, for a price, to all the worlds significant technical journals” (Murray 4). Here he explains how many of the amenities that a library can offer are now easily available through the internet. Though this is true he fails to once again acknowledge the importance that comes with having person to person communication. A library serves as a learning environment which provides knowledgeable librarians to assist in finding any information needed and that in itself is