It is often said that selective courses are more efficient because they motivate students to study harder. However, I disagree that high school students should be allowed to choose which subjects they will study. This is not only because students will only take courses that they can get good grades, but also because mandatory courses will help students to find their abilities and talents in specific fields.
To begin with, students will take courses that are easy to get good grades if they are allowed to chose subjects. The main purpose of high school education is to teach students general knowledges needed in their social lives, not to develop specialty in specific fields. If the students have the right to select classes that they will take, they will not take classes on different subjects, but take similar courses on same subjects to get good grades. For example, I took 5 claasesd in mathematics on maths in my high school. That was because they were easy to get good grades for me. However, I didn't take any courses on takk any classed on 2nd foreign languages because I was am afraid of learning another language.
In addition, mandatory courses will give students more chances to determine their future careers. This is because they will help students to find the subjects that they have talents in. For example, until senior year in high school, I believed that I was most interested in mathematics because I didn't have a any chance to take classes on social sciences such as economics and business admistration. After I took economics class which were mandatory course for senoir, I could find the subject that is best suited to myself and decieded to major economics in university. After I took a mandatory economics class as a senior, I realized that it was my call, so I decided to major in it(economics). If it had not been for the mandatory courses of my high school, I would have not been able to find my best career.
In conclusion, I strongly believe that mandatory courses are more beneficial to high school students than that selective courses(오타.) sourses. This is because students can get more chances to find well-suited career for themselves and to learn general knowledges better. All things considered, selective course systems are more is more adequate to higher level educational instituitions, such as universities and graduate schools. |