Sunday, January 27, 2013
Why Is It Important? Taking "Extra" Courses
One thing that I found interesting was the pressure that they put on students to get a good education but the things that they are teaching us will not be used in our chosen career path.What are we gonna do with that education once we receive it? On one side, I can understand that they prepare you for anything by teaching you general concepts: Reading, Writing, and Arithmetic (Math) but these subjects are starting to get outrageous. Why do I have to learn about astrology in Science if I want to build cars for a living? Who makes up the curricula for the schools and how do they determine what we should learn in school and why should we learn it? I think they teach us to prepare us for the tests that we take. My thing is that after we take these tests, what are we supposed to do with this information afterwards? Do we use it again for more tests later on in life? Do we use them in real-life applications? Do we just forget about it all together? Do the things we learn prove anything? I really think they do it to make us become better citizens in society. But where does learning about quantum physics apply in the everyday world? In the grocery store? Or maybe in the local mall? Unless you are specializing in something specific, then you should not be forced to learn "extra" material. I remember the YouTube video we watched in class, TedTalks about Education. I agree with almost everything he was talking about in his segment. Then not only did I hear it from him, I have experienced this first hand. Some of the classes I'm taking this Spring semester have nothing do with what I want to do as my major which is Architecture. I "have" to take these classes because they are "required" for my "General Education" credits. Why should I take a class on Motherhood when I am only 19? Don't get me wrong, I plan on having kids later on in life but why should I focus on that instead of learning about "green" structures and sustainability? I just don"t understand. Why is it important?
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Dominica, I completely agree with your post. This concept is one I have also found interesting. Throughout school we have always had classes that we were required to take that had no similarities to what career we were going into. In high school it did not really bother me, but in college it is different. Here we are paying for classes that do not relate to our major. I understand that they are put in place for a reason, I just share your confusion of why it is important. I also wonder why must every student enrolled in this university take these classes, and what do they expect us to get out of them.
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