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54) In order to become well-rounded individuals, all college students should be required to take courses in which they read poetry, novels, mythology, and other types of imaginative literature.
Write a response in which you discuss the extent to which you agree or disagree with the recommendation and explain your reasoning for the position you take. In developing and supporting your position, describe specific circumstances in which adopting the recommendation would or would not be advantageous and explain how these examples shape yourposition.
Imaginative literature is generally incorporated into education curriculum. Controversy surrounds the question of whether it should be requested to college students to select these courses. In my perspective, such imaginative literature as poetry, novels, mythology is surely indispensable for a well-rounded individual to know even a smattering; however, students shouldn't be required to take these courses, instead they are responsible for themselves to choose what they like or dislike.
Admittedly, imaginative literature has inconceivable power to tinge students with high emotional sensitivity, capacity of expressing compassion, and profound understanding of nature and society. Colleges are indeed in obligation to provide various types of relative curriculum options for students to select. Without taking these courses,students may graduate with purely rational mind, yet without perception of life and the ability to express more explicitly what is in their mind.
However, it is unfair for colleges to require students to take imaginative literature as a school mandate. This might assuredly result from the good intention of colleges to erudite their students comprehensively. However, the nature of education, as Aristotle, the ancient Greek philosopher maintained, is nature, reason, and habit. Without nature as the first step, education might not be stimulating and effective. Interest is the best teacher. If the students are not intrigued by such courses, they are merely squandering time which they should utilize to do some other things they like. What's more, college students are mature individuals who are equipped with abilities to determine what they really want. Those who prefer these courses would choose them without any thrust, while those who dislike them would evade these courses as much as possible. Therefore, this requirement might not be suitable for college education in essential.
Furthermore, taking these courses might exert adverse effects on students' studying on their own majors. Some majors,such as physics or medicine, are sufficiently arduous for students to digest,hence it can be imagined how stressed these students can be with extra curriculum pressing on them. More seriously, taking these courses might even hamper their freedom to choose what they really want, such as P.E, orvolunteering.
On balance, for college education, it is not suitable for the managers of colleges to require imaginative literature taken by students, but they only need to provide enough choices for them. The best momentum of study is from the innermost need, rather than external stimulus, and colleges merely have to try to tell students the necessities of the learning of imaginative literature. |
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