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Topic:In order to become well-rounded individuals, all college students should be required to take courses in which they read poetry, novels, mythology, and other types of imaginative literature.

 

Can formal education produce a wellrounded individual?  Students may benefit from taking extra courses in the humanities, but they may never get to apply these skills in their specialized fieds. The idea of extra classes in poetry and arts is a noble idea, but not all students would find these useful to core course of study.

College are centres of learning where a student makes a decision on what educational path to follow- either to be an engineer, painter or a doctor. And it would be unbecoming to distract a student’s attention from his desired field by taking courses in subject areas that may be byzantine, and prosaic to his intellect. Students should be allowed to concentrate on their core subjects so that they can become vast in their fields. Furthermore, certain courses are exacting and voluminous; it would be unfair to add more courses on an already tedious course load. For instance, medical students have to read through bulky books and take practical classes; it won’t be pertinent to add an extra, even extraneous, subject area to this.

Certain courses are very bulky indeed. College students are to be preparing for jobs when they finish their study. What would be the need of reading Shakespeare to an engineer that would work on an oil rig after school? It would be superfluous to take courses that would not have practical relevance to an individual in the work place. It might feel like time wasted reading through those courses. Furthermore, some students find it tough to pass their core courses, talk less of art and poetry courses that they may loath. It would be a waste of funds and resources spent by colleges to undertake such programs.

Although, the well rounded individual should have an idea of field disimilar from his specialization, I believe courses that some students don’t have a penchant for, may not make them well read individuals. Student should be given a choice to make such decisions.