higher education

A different look on higher education People often view things with smaller value because of their perceived flaws. In “Blue-Collar Brilliance”, the author Mike Rose discusses the amount of academic success a person achieves doesn’t always correlate to how intelligent a person is. Also in the essay “The New Liberal arts", the author Sanford Ungar talks about seven different misconceptions people have on liberal arts education. Even though Mike Rose and Sanford Ungar both address how society sometimes has an unfairly low opinion of certain aspects of life, Mike Rose provides a more convincing argument due to the fact that he used personal experiences to support his claim, insight on the general motor skills which also made his argument more effective, and generally grabs the readers full attention. While Sanford Ungar just states his misconceptions not really convincing his audience or grabbing them to change their view on liberal arts. Mike Rose presented several different personal experiences in his argument to help support his claim. He specifically talked about his mom who dropped out the seventh grade and his uncle who only finished the ninth grade. They both had very low educational level of learning and although they didn’t graduate or go to college they both had very unique skills in what they worked hard for. Rose was able to connect his argument about blue collar jobs and service workers to his own personal family which gives the audience examples of supporting details. In Ungars essay he uses no personal experience and simply just states the seven common misconceptions people have about the liberal arts major. Because Ungar stated just general misconceptions and not many examples that helped support it, his essay was less persuasive. Every person masters in certain skills more than others and the amount of education that person has will not be able to determine how exactly they mastered it. In Rose essay he observes