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94"Universities should require every student to take a variety of courses outside the student's field of study because acquiring knowledge of various academic disciplines is the best way to become truly educated."
What is the real education for college students? Does that mean students should take other variety courses beside main subject? In my point of view, I think that the study of multiple subjects is just one part of a sound education system. To achieve us truly educational goal, we should focus on the education research about the capacity of students.
To some degree, asking students to study different subjects will broaden students' thought and enlarge the capacity of students studying .Also learning sources of variety fields will help students understand the content of classes further and be interested in science and technology. In university, students are encouraged to work as team with other students of different subjects’ .Because while they work in a group, they can learn to deal with the problems in different views of variety courses, also it can help students deepen analysis of native subject. At this point, learning variety of courses is similarly for students to work with other students who study different in subject.
Although the study of multiple courses will help students improve the capacity of learn knowledge, this does not mean the real capacity of students has increased. Knowledge is not equally to capacity. Some students did good study and broaden reading in school; however when they step into social and work with others, they find themselves is never good as they were in school. Under such high social pressure, some students may give up working and lost themselves in the depression. Today, if people don’t have the capacity of individual thinking, problem-solving and question-analysis, they can not live with others and work in a group. What is more, the only way we improve our capacity is just through stepping into social work. So, when you leave out university, no matter whatever you had studied, you still start to learn new knowledge and skills as you were a new student coming school.
What is the true education? Education is aim to help students freely interact with others, enhance capacity in study and life. So as a teacher, asking students learn variety of subjects is just a little part of education. What teachers need to do is to help students to use knowledge flexible and adapt social needs .In some university teachers try to compress the time of study and encourage students to do some internship, community services or starting make business for themselves. According to recent study by the Country Education Organization (CEO), The CEO randomly selected 100 freshmen while they coming into university. Dividing them into two groups, A and B, CEO take extra group activities like providing working practices in company or having interaction with alumnus who are successful .On the other side, without these extra activities, students of group B only accepted the normal education. Four years later, after they graduated, 45 students of group A found a job in short time. But only 3 of group B found a job even though most of students in group B have better scores than the students in group A.
The research of education never stops. Following the evolution of research in education, it is obvious that asking students staying classroom will never adapt social improvement nowadays .Helping students to enhance capacity is more useful than to learn varied subjects at university.
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