Is wasting time the only thing we waste? Or do the things we attend or do waste our time? Caroline Bird wrote the argumentative argument in 1975 of "College Is a Waste of Time and Money". Caroline argues for college students who thinks college is a waste of their time, and money. She supports this view by observing the colleges, and doing interviews with the students. She believes students go there because it is a institution and they are not getting educated when going to college. To convince her audience Bird appeals to the audience's logos by drawing conclusions from educators, students, and testimonials by observing the colleges atmospheres. Bird appeals to the audience's ethos because she actually cares about the students as well. The students at the college told her how they felt about attending college. She also uses logos by stating statistics from this experience. This argument "College Is a Waste of Time and Money" author is effective at convincing the audience to reconsider the purpose of going to college and the actual meaning. Time is a valuable thing to waste, a college student should never feel unwanted, and most of all every opinion matters.
When attending college no teenager should feel unwanted there. Caroline Bird interviewed students to see how they felt about attending college. Caroline concluded that the students there were not happy at all. A student responded, "College made him feel as if he was in a jail cell". Another student said "College was a waste of his fathers bread". Bird interprets most college students are not in school for the learning, but many of them are there because it has become the social work place for them to communicate. According to Bird, "Only twenty-five.
percent of students enter college because they have a desire to learn. For the other seventy-five percent, it is just a social center". Bird believes that the students are unhappy in college because they seem themselves as "unwanted adults".