The Importance Of Living A Scholarly Life

General Education requirements for students results in a longer time to actually work on minor and major requirements. Allysa Pracz, Oral Communications teacher at Northern Illinois University, holds a just and honest opinion that General Educations classes are useless because they may have nothing to do with one’s major. For instance, a college algebra course would obviously have no effect on a student studying Creative Writing. The only question left to answer would be, why do such requirements exist? It could also be understood that courses required in fact focus on what students should have learned in high school. Pracz recalls her freshman year in college, stating, “I remember as a freshman taking classes such as ENGL 103 or COMS 100. Yes, both classes may be beneficial to some, but they mostly just rehash concepts and skills that the majority of students already possess or will pick up in other courses throughout their academic careers.” College students should be somewhat familiar with the basic concepts of many subjects offered, such as writing papers or algebra. It could also be proven that students are not quite interested in classes that they see as useless. For instance, students who major in Apparel Merchandising would have no interest in taking biology courses. Disinterest could ultimately result in bad grades and a low GPA for students.

College is a time for students to “discover what they love to do” (Source B), which may not have been what they originally thought it would be. Many students use college as a period of academic experimentation before deciding on a career path they will tend to follow for the rest of their life. Students are exposed to a majority of fields in their generals and are able to weed out what they do not like to

4. The kind of personality in which this author conveys is that he feels that some majors are useless, and will not help you find a job that has nothing to do with that major. for example, that author explains that employers do not care about you or your major, all they care about is what grades you received and what school you had attended to. If this author were to teach at my college, yes I would take his class because this author seems to be very educated, knows what he is talking about, and I feel that I will gain knowledge from his class.

Colombo explains that “Beginning college can be disconcerting experience” (Colombo, p.1). That there will be more peer pressure from your peers and an increase expectations that you have never faced during your high

This way of teaching may seem like the easiest, most efficient route, but it is not necessarily the most practical. Based on Gerald Graff’s personal experiences, he has come to the conclusion that “schools and colleges are missing an opportunity when they do not encourage students to take their nonacademic interests as objects of academic study,” (Graff 270). In other words, schools should start to focus on more extracurricular activities and sports, and transferring that passion into more scholarly subjects. Coming from a professor at the University of Chicago, who initially claimed himself to be an “anti-intellect,” this statement shows the true significance of non-educational activities and how they are equally valuable to other things considered more intellectual. Likewise, many blue-collared job individuals are looked down upon by the eyes of society, due to not valuing non-academic work.

College students are often worrying too much about becoming wealthy in the future rather than worrying about funding a career they love to perform in the future. Many students feel they need too have their entire life figured out and only take classes that will advance them. While these classes are important, taking elective classes are also necessary to experiance new things and open their minds.too In “College Pressures” by William Zinsser, Zinsser uses pathos to explain how students are stressing out about planning their futures.

Having previously viewed Accepted before this course, it has been a favorite of mine because of the way college was portrayed in the film. I was anxious to move from the constant watch of my parents to a care-free environment where I was free to do as I please, not having to answer to anyone. The actions of Bartleby and his peers at South Harmon excited me for a time of partying and living life to it’s fullest potential. I expected the same from my experience, but soon realized that it was unrealistic if I wanted my grades to be exceptional. College is about having the time of your life, but in the right ways with the proper balance. Too much studying or too much partying can both lead to negative consequences on the body. Through experimentation, I am working to find the proper balance that works for me. Like the students in the beginning of Ms. Watson’s class, I expected the courses to be straightforward and that I could grasp them on my own. I aspired to maintain a grade point average similar to what I graduated high school with and also wanted to identify what I am passionate about. My courses this fall have proven to be quite difficult and have challenged me to realize my true learning potential. I have discovered that, if I

In “Starving for Wisdom” by Nicholas Kristof, the author explains the importance of humanities in enriching people and finances. The humanities are learning about human culture with “literature, history, art music and philosophy” (Oxford Dictionaries). In summary, this essay explains the benefits of having the three modes of persuasion; ethos, pathos, logos and displays the impact and importance of the humanities. Decisions based on the humanities can have negative effects on the population.

“Misconception No.1: A liberal arts education is a luxury that most families can no longer afford. ‘Career-education’ is what we must now focus on.” (Ungar, 2010, pp.191) As Ungar has claimed, there is a recent misconception that a liberal arts education is no longer a necessity but luxury because it doesn’t provide an instant career launching education. With so many people having to a need to spend as little money as possible, they are determined to only spend money on preparation for their future career. For this reason they go to college only to take courses that are necessary for their future. “She is in college to take vocational training. She wants to write computer code. Start a business. Get a job in television. She uses college to take vocational courses that pertain to her career interest.” (Murray, 2008, pp.228) Murray explained the story of a girl who is in college solely for preparation for her career. Because of this, she isn’t interested in a liberal arts education. If the course doesn’t directly pertain to her desired career, she prefers not to take it.

As I mentioned in a prior passage I believe that a person chooses to attend college because they have a passion, not just for their degree related program but an innate desire to learn new things and expand upon the subjects they already know about. "It is more a matter of students moving beyond their interests than of teachers fitting their subjects to interests that students already have. "~ Gary Gutting, the job of a teacher/professor in my opinion has to be one of the most demanding yet rewarding jobs that a person could hold. To not only introduce a person to a new topic of idea but to help them expand their viewpoint well beyond what they thought possible.

There are many benefits to offering the humanities courses as a liberal arts degree and has been an option for students for ages. Conversely, due to the rising, uncontrolled costs of college tuition, colleges and universities need to streamline a goal oriented education at the end of each student's college commitment to make their financial commitment justifiable. Additionally, the students enter college with the anticipation that they will be gainfully employed which will eventually make them wealthy. The decision at Centenary College to cut courses in the humanities is controversial for a variety of reasons. For instance, in advanced degrees such as engineering, some feel it is not necessary to take unrelated courses, such as, music, arts, religion, and philosophy. These are all just extras that are taking time away from students who want to major in something that does not involve these things. On the other hand, some humanity courses are important because they are believed to teach

Alyssa Pracz, a journalist at Northern Star, makes the point that “[p]rofessors, however, tend to teach the material as if everyone taking the class is planning on majoring in the subject” when, in reality, students just see the class as another general education course. Additionally, students struggle in some of the subjects which have nothing to do with their particular majors. Pracz also states, “As a result, many students' grades suffer, sometimes to the point of lowering their grade point averages so much that they are unable to get into the major they planned on pursuing”. Ultimately, if a student has a huge passion and dream for his life, and cannot pass a certain general education course then his whole future is foiled. General education classes are redundant and do not aid the student whatsoever in cultivating skills required for his future job. Colleges and universities think general education courses are helping students when they actually are hurting them.

The essays are related because Graff proposes the argument of academic work can be channeled through personal interests. Peacocke 's essay provides an example of Graff 's argument because she provides a remarkable piece of literature talking about the pros and cons of her favorite show "Family Guy." I really enjoyed how Peacocke used examples from very comical moments in Family Guy like the Business instructional video in the 1950s that had some sexism on how to treat women in the workplace. She showed the negative impacts of the show like the protests of parents, but it was brought back two times after fans pressured Fox into reopening the show. Video games are an interest of mine, which can be intellectual because of how they are made,

Equility 7-2521 the main protagonist who always wanted to be a scholar,but instead was assigned to be a Street Sweeper.It tells one day as the Street sweeper he found a tunnel for his hideout, since the day he can write,think, and do experiments.Then later he fall in love with Liberty 5-300 as he passed one day and he has not able to stop thinking about her.More time passes he discovered electricity and share with the scholar.Unfortunately he came late and went to prison for a month.Equility breaks out of prison and went to the Scholar to share his invention.The Scholar rejected him, so he ran away to the forest.He was followed by librrty,so they went together.Finally settled in a house he renamed themselves as Greek God and discovers the

Sitting in class for the first time, it was half of what I expected. I expected to sit by people I didn’t know, learn about old things in new lights, and writing a lot of papers. What I didn’t expect was me hating college. I am not as creative as some teaches would like, but that isn’t my personality, and I dint want it to be either. I fully expected college to try and morph me into a perfect little student that I knew I wasn’t. College so far to me hasn’t been fun and I will treat it like Wal-Mart. When I say that, I mean that I will get in and get out as fast as possible. If I pick up stuff along the way then alright, but if I don’t, then it won’t kill me.