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As the world changes faster than ever before, the society wants people to have more talents and skills. Accordingly, a controversy has arisen over whether Universities and high schools should teach students about specific careers and fields instead of general subjects or not. I definitely believe that Universities and high schools should teach students about general subjects for two reasons
To begin with, the society requires a broad range of knowledge instead of specific knowledge. This is because, there are lots of area linked with many other relative fields. Thus, people cannot know fully about their specific career without knowing other relative fields. So in order for people to exert their abilities, they have to know general subjects. For example, a doctor who wants to have his own hospital has to know about marketing, which he did not learned before in school. Without knowing that, he cannot run his hospital efficiently because running a hospital is business. Thus, he should know about other fields to be succeed.
On top of that, learning general subjects allow people to have common sense. This is due to the fact that it makes people think diversely. In other words, people can have more balanced thinking, not biased thinking. If some people learned about only their specific fields or subjects, they just only think about their subjects and cannot understand other fields. So, they tend to think they are right because they do not know other fields. however, If some people who have learned general subjects, they can understand other fields because they are not biased. In this sense, one who learned general subjects can think diversely and understand thinking of other person who is majoring in different major.
To sum up, I strongly maintain the idea that universities and high schools teach students about general area by giving two examples: broad range of knowledge and common sense. In this regard, though our technology, culture and any other things have advanced in high level, schools have to place more on general basic knowledge than specific subjects. |