When I read Gideon Burton’s article, my
first response was to ask “Is he being serious?” And then I spent the rest of
the article trying to figure out if he was trying to be ironic or use some form
of satire. At the end of the article I decided he was probably joking, but
needless to say, if he was being serious, I absolutely do not agree with his
position. Burton’s argument was essentially that college was not beneficial to
youth today and instead of wasting our time with college we should instead
focus on building our own “online reputation”.
Not only was his argument very radical,
but it was also not presented well. His tone was much too casual to be taken
seriously, was all over the place, and did not make him seem like a professor
at all. He also had no factual evidence for his argument, and made a lot of
broad statements without ever backing them up. His support included a personal
experience in which he hired a girl based off of her personal blog instead of
her résumé- a situation that I doubt would be repeated in any other
professional setting. At the end of the article I was even more against his
argument than I was originally merely because I felt that it was written
poorly.
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