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刚才竟然发错地方了，囧~~
Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study.
Should universities require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study, as the statement contends? Surely, students can have a broad view about this world by taking this advice. However, I fundamentally disagree with this statement because it ignores the feasibility of the proposition and overstates the importance of other courses which outside the student's field.
First, there is no escaping the fact that it is beneficial and importance for students to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study. Taking different courses outside the student's field of study, the students will have a broad view of other fields and a better understanding of the world. Furthermore, the students may reach an unexpectedly success by taking this proposition. One apt illustration of this point involves Steven Paul Jobs, an American businessman and inventor who is widely recognized as a charismatic pioneer of the personal computer revolution. When Jobs took his calligraphy class, which wasn't part of his major field but he found interesting, he didn't know ten years later he would design it all into the first Mac, the first computer with beautiful typography. If he didn't take calligraphy courses, he is impossible to design beautiful calligraphy into the first Mac which contributes a lot to his success.
Despite the merits of the speaker's claim, however, the claimer ignores the feasibility and necessity of the proposition. With the respect to the feasibility to the advice, first, not every school has the ability to provide a variety courses outside the major field. Moreover, not every student has enough time and interest to study courses outside their field. No one can deny that the major courses are a burdensome task for most students. Students prefer to fill their leisure time with extracurricular activities such as sports, clubs, cheerleading and so on which is supposed to have more entertainment and inculcate such qualities as leadership, sportsmanship rather than studying courses outside their field. Even assuming that the advice is feasibility, we cannot claim that this advice is necessity. First, overstate the courses outside student's field of study is likely to lead students ignore their major courses. They probably have a wide knowledge but don't expert in any field which may cause an obstacle for them to find a job in the future. What's more, enforcing students study some courses they don't really like is possible to have an adverse effect on the student's study.
In fact, the genuine education is to make students have the ability to solve the problems which they never face before. Students may forget the specific knowledge which they have learned in the college but they will never forget the leaning method which helps them to handle whatever life may present, including all the unknowns of the future. In this level, we should attach more importance to the how to teach students acquire the learning method rather than specific knowledge, because not every question has a definite answer in the real society.
To sum up, I concede that it is beneficial and importance for students to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study. However overemphasis the courses outside the student’s field of study are possible to cause an adverse result. In my opinion, we should attach more importance to the how to teach students acquire the learning method rather than specific knowledge. |
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