Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? highschools should allow students to study the courses that students want to study. Use specific reasons and examples to support your opinion. |
These days, some people insist that high schools should offer students opportunities to study the courses they choose. They believe that from a young age, students should find their specialized field in study. I strongly disagree with this idea. High schools should try to provide students with various courses of study. They are 3 reasons I stand for. Firstly, high school courses are aimed at producing students equipped with generalized knowledge. Through these courses, students learn basic knowledge to live in a society and what kind of relevance exists between various kind of study. If students are allowed to know only certain types of field, it will cause lots of problems. Take a situation happened in 1999-2002 for an example. Minister of Education and Science of the day, Lee Hae-chan, announced that students who deeply know about their specialized field could easily make their way to an university they want. Things were totally different from what he expected. The lack of basic knowledge in various field of study made students struggled to keep up with university’s intensified courses, since many studies are dependent on each other. Secondly, allowing students to study only certain courses will block most of students from finding their true interest and talent. In high schools, there are many who know thoroughly about their talent and are in pursue of it. In contrast, there are also lots of students who need to find what makes them interested. In this case, they are forced to study what they do not know if they are truly excited about, deprived of the time they can think over their future, career, and own specialized filed. Last, it is far better that high schools help students to get involved in class’s activities deeply and obtain knowledge. The emerging opinion, which insists on guaranteeing a chance to choose courses for students, usually comes from a situation in which students are just given teacher’s lecture. They are only asked to write down what their teachers say important and recite them fully, not knowing if they understood the lectures or not. This passive attitudes leads them to avoid the courses that they think do not interest them all. For the sake of the purpose of high school education, we have to find every way possible to make students actively engaged in various types of fields. High schools are the one intended to raise people with various knowledge. More specialized and intensified courses of studies are in the area of university education. I strongly believe that students should be given the opportunity to close themselves to as many courses as possible so that they come to know the relationship between many studies and find their interest and career on their own. |
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