Murray talks about Barack Obama's authority, which can change job requirements. Students should study for four years in college to get a bachelor degree and usually those students come from wealthy families and they are well educated. However, most students come from low class families which do not have enough money to cover the cost of their studies, whereas they are looking for well-paid jobs after graduating from high school. Nowadays, most jobs ask for a bachelor degree when students apply for it. Murray's view is that the bachelor degree is good for those who want to continue their higher education, yet it should not be vital for all kinds of jobs. He says that when many companies hire their employee, they just measure the bachelor degree as the job preparedness, which is not relevant.
Also, the author illustrates in his article that most colleges requires some difficult standards from the students which are beyond their abilities such as the high-levels of verbal skills and logic-mathematical capability. In order to discard the bachelor’s degree as a job qualification, Murray suggests replacing the college degree as a job requirement with the certificate tests which can prove a person skill for the job he applied. Not only that, but also he cites that Obama should repeat his words continuously “It’s what you can do that should count when you apply for a job, not where you learned to do it" which means that employers should look at a person skills and ability, without being concern about where the degree is came from or where that person learned how to work.
In a nutshell, Charles Murray believes that employing should be based on person ability in a job. Bachelor degree should not be a reason for not hiring someone or to judge person skills.
Reference: Charles Murray, "Should The Obama Generation Drop Out?" P99-P101
Hi Nouh,
ReplyDeleteI want to just ask why you chose this summary writing as your best work. I am curious... Anyway, the summary writing was our first assignment, right? In the beginning, I still remember that many students had a difficulty to write a summary because you need to paraphrase and be objective. I do hope that you have developed the ability to write a summary competently, because the ability is very essential for academic studies at university.
Lastly, I would like to thank you for your active participation in class activities. I really loved having you in my class and communicating with you. I wish you a lot of good lucks for your future studies. I do also hope that you will write more and more academic papers and in the future I would like to see your development as a writer.