Required courses are by no means needed. In James Thurber’s piece University Days it is required to take classes that were irrelative to his greater goal. For example, it was necessary for Thurber to take a swimming class. Only if Thurber wanted to participate in a decathlon or the Olympics would this be of any good to him. Obviously he was there to study writing and literatur

Having no fun whatsoever is just the tip of the iceberg; required courses in education are useless, considering it is only the administrations desires to necessitate these things. Well roundedness is a positive aspect in the eyes of few, and specializing is an aspect well thought of in the eyes of most. For the administration of the education structure to say that the student must be well rounded is basing a decision purely on preference and opinion, which clearly is wrong.

Take this example. A future brain surgeon has a final on Thursday afternoon. Low and behold, he doesn’t have the opportunity to study thoroughly because the previous day he had a full day of classes and in the morning, before the final, he had an early physical education class. This lapse of studying has not allowed him to be prepared for the final exam and failure was imminent. Due to this failure the student drops out and amounts to a stork clerk. Saying that this student would have passed this test he could have saved lives after becoming a physician. However the selfishness of the administration has caused too many lives to suffer. Is it fair to rob the lives of innocent civilians just to teach students who are there on a business transaction well rounded living styles? This may be what many would classify as a very extreme example, but the possibility is al

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