Do you agree or disagree with the following statement? All students should be required to study art and music in secondary school. Use specific reasons to support your answer |
" To take art and music classes or not.... that's the problem." Hamlet might have said like this if he were a university student in modern society. Nowadays, it is neccessary for students to acquire knowldege in a wide range of areas. Therefore, many of them major in multiple subjects or take courses in which he or she doesn't specialize. For the following reasons, I believe that all students should study art and music with their majors as well. Above all, expanding knowledge in a variety of fields can help students to get better jobs. Students are required to combine knowledge in different subjects to solve the problem they encounter. To be employed by big companies like Samsung, they have to learn diverse subjects for interviews and tests. Let's take the case of my cousin. He graduated from the university and was preparing for the interview to get a job in a big company. Most of his friends thought that it would be hard for him to pass the interview because he didn't have enough time to study for it. He only had about one week for studying, so he was very nervous about that. Finally, it was the day for his interview. After he finished his presentation, interviewers started to ask him questions. He tried his best to give them good impressions. Accoding to him, one of the questions was about the music. The question was " What's your strategy for selling our products if we have to use some information in music? " Actually, it was the year related to Mozart's birth, so he had to reply it with his own knowledge of music. Fortunately, he took the classical music that yeat, so he learned about Mozart recently. He answered very well, and he got the job in that company. Next, arts and music can be helpful to people's health. We can solve stress by playing muscial instruments, singing, or painting. There are numerous studies showing that listening to music and drawing pictures are beneficial to patients because they can relieve stress. Hence, many doctors use music and arts to treat their patients. It turned out really successful for the treament of the disturbed patients because most of them seemd to concentrate on the music and arts. Also, some of my friends told me that they go to Karaoke after the final exams to solve stress they got. I sometimes went there with my best friends to relieve stress by singing songs after the important tests. To summarize, some people argue that students don't have to take music and art classes because they might not be able to concentrate on studying of their professions. However, I strongly insist that they need to take those course because they can get more opportunities to get better jobs and those classes would be helpful to their health. |