I want to argue whether pr not getting a college degree guarantees a successful future....?

Question

How would I approach this beacuse I have to create a 10PAGE!!! argumentative paper on my topic, any ideas?

Answer 1

Future has a lot to do with choices... a college degree and strong educational foundation does not always determine what choices you will make in the future. The only thing a college degree guarantees you is that you will look good on paper.

Answer 2

Well the key word is guarantee, it doesn't do that. In fact it's probably even the case that the degree itself is not what causes the documented increased probability of success. It's the personal discipline and needed self-esteem that goes along with the makeup of a college type person that probably causes the difference. While there will always be examples of non-college grads being successful, nobody can argue with the fact that in the end college grads do better than non college grads, just as a statistical matter.

Answer 3

If you are going through established channels (joining a company that all ready exsists), a college degree is a must so that you can get hired in the first place and it will play a role in your "promotability" in the future. If you are starting your own business, it isn't as important since many successful entrepreneurs don't have a college education.

This argument doesn't take into account what you actually LEARN while attending college. I didn't take easy electives. With a major in Accounting, all of my electives were in Business Law, Economics and other business-related fields so that I had the knowledge base to branch out in the companies where I was employed (I actually spent many years making good money negotiating deals because of my financial and tort law familiarity).

That should give you a sound foundation to build upon. Good luck with it.

Answer 4

From what I have seen in society, yes it does make a difference in your amount of success. Many jobs now want people with higher education, some actually require it for you to even apply! Many fields and companies want people who are well trained and basically know how to do the job before they start so that they can just go to work and not need tons of on the job training at the company's expense. When you go to college you can pick what you go for which makes your odds of getting a job you actually LIKE better as well. College degrees increase your opportunities, as well as potential salaries. it is a known fact that people with an education above just high-school earn more money throughout their lifetime. Hope these things help you with your paper!!

Answer 5

The answer to this is absouletly not. Some people who go to college and get a degree either do not put their college degree to work for them. While others go into a field that is not high in demand because of the number of people who go into a particular field. So the job demand is a lot less compared to the number of students that graduate each year.

Some people who get a degree can still be turned down from being under or over qualified for a particular job.

And to give you some sources on some people who became famous with out a grade school to a college degree. They showed all of us that they were able to make it without a degree of any kind. This will show that a degree is just a piece of paper, and even though they paid for their knowledge nothing bets experience over a piece of paper.

When people who do get a job in that field of study if they can not preform or show they can hold their own they will not last in any job. Which then they will not be sucessful.

While other can get a better position at another job that is not related to the feild of study. But having a college degree may of put them ahead of someone that has no college degree.

Hope this gives you some ideas and will help. Good luck on your paper.

I know some of these people who became famous had it a lot easier than what it is today.



15 FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO NEVER GRADUATED FROM GRADE SCHOOL: Andrew Carnegie, Charlie Chaplin, Buffalo Bill Cody, Noel Coward, Charles Dickens, Isadora Duncan, Thomas Edison, Samuel Gompers, Maksim Gorky, Claude Monet, Sean O’Casey, Alfred E. Smith, John Philip Sousa, Henry M. Stanley, Mark Twain.

20 FAMOUS HIGH-SCHOOL OR SECONDARY-SCHOOL DROPOUTS: Harry Belafonte, Cher, Mary Baker Eddy, Henry Ford, George Gershwin, D. W. Griffith, Adolf Hitler, Jack London, Dean Martin, Bill Mauldin, Rod McKuen, Steve McQueen, Amedeo Modigliani, Al Pacino, Will Rogers, William Saroyan, Frank Sinatra, Marshal Tito, Orville Wright, Wilbur Wright.

20 FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO NEVER ATTENDED COLLEGE: Joseph Chamberlain, Grover Cleveland, Joseph Conrad, Aaron Copland, Hart Crane, Eugene Debs, Amelia Earhart, Paul Gauguin, Kahlil Gibran, Ernest Hemingway, Rudyard Kipling, Abraham Lincoln, H. L. Mencken, John D. Rockefeller, Eleanor Roosevelt, George Bernard Shaw, Dylan Thomas, Harry S. Truman, George Washington, Virginia Woolf.

13 FAMOUS AMERICAN LAWYERS WHO NEVER WENT TO LAW SCHOOL: Patrick Henry, John Jay*, John Marshall*, William Wirt, Roger B. Taney*, Daniel Webster, Salmon P. Chase*, Abraham Lincoln, Stephen Douglas, Clarence Darrow (attended one year), Robert Storey, J. Strom Thurmond, James 0. Eastland. (* - Chief Justice of the US Supreme Court.)

As we all know there are no guarantees in this world.

Answer 6

10 pages? That is nuts.

The trick words are "guaranteed" and "successful"

Not hing is guaranteed.

you could get a degree in microbiology and get run over by a beer truck three days later, so one could argue the absoluteness of "guaranteed"

Then, we get into the issue of successful. Who's definition of successful are we using?

What if everyone else thinks I am successful but i don't? Who is right and who is wrong?

And what happens if you are successful, but because of a moral defect, you go to prison. Are you still successful?

Answer 7

well which side are you arguing for?

i personally say no, a college degree doesn't guarantee a successful future. there are lots of people who spend a bunch of money on college only to find they didn't want that career after all.

i also know people who never went to college are very happy with their life.

college does not guarantee a successful future. if you want to have a successful future, get a career based on what you want to do, not how much money it makes.

Answer 8

A college degree means that you know how to sit and listen in a classroom. It does NOT mean you have any experience in the field you majored in. Ultimately, it's just a piece of paper.

Answer 9

Bill Gates....doesn't have a college degree & he's one of the most finanically successful men on the planet.

Answer 10

I would like to get my guarantee fulfilled then!