▶ Your Answer : In recent days, high school students study major subjects in SAT day and night to enroll in famous universities. However, it is important to study courses that seems minor. With this understanding, I believe that it is important for high school students to take a basic economics. This is because it helps them to broaden interpersonal skills and enjoy a better quality of life. Firstly, learning a basic economics enable students to broaden interepersonal skills. Understanding the relationship between forming connections with others and learning basic economics is important. Learning basic economics helps students to learn basic principles in economics. These principles help students to understand economic issues better. Also, recent people are greatly interested in economic events as these issues are closely related to accumulation or loss of their wealth. So, economic events help people to form common topics with each other. For example, I was greatly interested in economics in high school, and participated in after-school an economics course. This was extremely useful for me to build interpersonal skills in later years in society. In one situation, I joyfully continued talking with my client who had his real estate price increased due to the construction of a new subway station near his land and before the meeting. As I was able to sympathize with him, I could form a connection with him. In this respect, it is important for high school students to take basic economics as it has an effect of building interpersonal skills. Secondly, investing time studying a basic economics enables students to enjoy a better quality of life. Interestingly, a renowned social scientist in South Korea recently published an article in 'The Koran Herald' claiming that learning basic ecnomics helps students to strengthen social competitiveness. According to the article 62 percent of 200 Korean leading recruiters prefer people who have taken basic economics classes in their high school years or in university years. They show such tendency because they tend to solve problems occuring in corporations better than those who have never learned economics. In the long-run, such ability job performances. This is because most problems happening in companies are related with economic issues. They can not only predict how the economic issues will affect their corportations but also find suitable solutions to minimize bad ramifications. This not only results in job promotions but also ultimately encourages students to enjoy a better quality of life in the future. To sum up, I believe that it is important for all high school students take basic economics class for tho following reasons; to broaden interpersonal skills and to enjoy a better quality of life. As a consequence the importance of my view cannot be underestimated due to the reasons I have mentioned. |