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Some people think that students should be free to choose some of their subjects in high school. However, in my opinion, I strongly believe that high school students should take all the classes they are required to attend because it can help them to choose their major in college and have a positive effect on their grades.
To begin with, students can benefits from taking all the classes in high school because the exposure to many different fields can help students decide their major in university. Often times, students do not know what they want to do or what they are best suited for unless they actually experience a variety of fields. For example, my high school made several subjects optional. Among them, was a Japanese class. Back then, I didn’t feel that I liked Japanese very much, so I didn’t take it. Then, later it turned out that I have a lot of interest in learning foreign languages, and even though I chose literature as my major, I decided to change to Japanese language. Had I been required to take the Japanese class in high school I wouldn’t have had wasted my effort and time on something I didn’t really have much interest in.
On top of that, taking a variety of classes can be helpful in getting good grades because by studying many dissimilar subjects, one can stimulate many different parts of their brain, which boosts their brain activity. Similarly, experts in various fields often get inspirations from something outside their specialty. For instance, in his book ‘The Elegant Universe’, Brian Greene, professor of physics at Columbia university expressed his fascination for music and described how he got an inspiration for explaining vibrating strings of matter from musical instruments. (according to string theory, strings are fundamental constituents that make up all matter in our universe.- if we look at subatomic particles such as electrons, quarks at an ultramicroscopic level we may find tiny little vibrating strings of energy). He drew an analogy between the way the strings in stringed instruments vibrate and the way the strings of energy vibrate by saying that just like different ways in which the strings in an instrument produce different musical notes, different ways in which strings in string theory vibrate generate different physical properties. This clearly shows that exposing oneself to a wide range of areas can be beneficial in terms of improving one’s performance in whatever they are doing.
To sum up, I think that high school students should attend all the required classes because it can benefit them in ways that help to decide on their major in college and promote their overall brain health which ,in turn, leads to higher grades. |