34"Instead of requiring students to take courses in a variety of disciplines—that is, courses ranging from the arts and the humanities to the physical and biological sciences—colleges and universities should allow students to enroll only in those courses that will help prepare them for jobs in their chosen fields. Such concentration is necessary in today's increasingly work-oriented society."
It seems nowadays that job-related courses are so important to students in colleges that they need only study these courses in order to have a good job with necessary knowledge. Because of this, many universities as well as students put far less energy to those seemingly non-work-related courses. However, as far as I am concerned, other courses, such as arts, humanities, and some biological sciences are as important as those practically job-related ones.
It is true that job-related courses are crucial to students in that most of them attend to universities seeking for job-related skill which will ensure them get a fine job after graduate. The ultimate goal of education is also to nurture high-qualified people who can fit for related jobs with a wide professional knowledge, so every university should ensure that their students can gain enough required knowledge to better their future life. Equipped with those knowledge, student gain the key to enter the future professional gate which may keep close for those outsiders. After all, it is work-related knowledge that enables students to perform themselves during their future working period: they use their learned job-related knowledge rather than some irrelevant knowledge, say art, to gain higher achievement in their jobs; innovations are always resulted from professional knowledge too. Simply put, when one mastered no job-related knowledge, how could companies employ them for further development?
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